Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeStockwork
Deposit sizeY
WorkingsSurface/Underground
Orebody formCHAMBERS CONNECTED BY LODES
Ore controlSolution Cavaties Filled With Breccia, Which Formed By Enlargement Or Fractures And Faults
Materials
GangueIron
Other materialsCinnabar
Geology
Host rockLimestone
StructureFractures Enlarged By Solution Are Associated With Thrust Faults Along Bedding Planes. Only The Vertical Fractures Are Productive.
AlterationHydrothermal
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10050123
MRDS IDMX11009
Alternate namesSan Vidal, Santa Lucia, Rosita, San Grimaldo, Tabachin, Neri, San Jose, Guadalupe, Bonate, San Antonio, Conchita, La Luz
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates18.30068, -99.55033
References
NORBERTO DE LA ROSA, 1943, INFORME GENERAL SOBRE EL DISTRITO DE MERCURIO DE COACOYULA EN EL ESTADO DE GUERRERO, MEXICO: ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT, DIRECCION GENERAL DE MINAS Y PETROLEO.FOSHAG, 1942, MEMORANDUM. REPORT ON MERCURY OCCURRENCES AT COACOYULA, GUERRERO, MEXICO, USGS.RIES, 1942, MEMO, USGS.