Mine detail: Charcas

Previously called 'Charcas Unit'

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Location: San Luis Potosi, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 23.11716, -101.10038
dep_id: 10303253
mas_id: 2010450007
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Zinc
Minor mineral: Copper, Lead, Silver
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Difrancesco, Carl A.
disc_yr: 1583
References:
  • Deposit:: EMJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING, 1975.
  • Deposit:: EMJ, FOUR CONCENTRATES FROM CHARCAS UNIT, NOV. 1980,
  • Deposit:: PP. 125-126.
  • Deposit:: INTERNAT. LEAD AND ZINC STUDY GROUP, LEAD AND ZINC NEW MINE
  • Deposit:: AND SMELTER PROJECTS, DEC. 1980.
  • Deposit:: LOS RECUROS NATURALES NO RENOVABLES DE MEXICO. BULLETIN 73.
  • Reserve-Resource:: PINCOCK, ALLEN & HOLT, JANUARY 1989
  • Reserve-Resource:: AME MINERAL ECONOMICS QUARTERLY MINE ANALYSIS, JUNE, 1993,
  • Reserve-Resource:: P. 38.
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