Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeY
WorkingsUnknown
Orebody formPOCKETS AND STRINGERS
Ore controlNs Trending Nappe-Like And Z-Shaped Folds Verge On Thrust Faults At Depth, With Gouge And Slickensides. Ore Is Localized In The Downward Opening Acute Angles Of These Folds In The Associated Breccia. An Impervious Gouge Cap Envelopes The Breccia.
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar, Metacinnabar
GangueCalcite
Geology
Host rockLimestone
Structure50 Degree Westward Tilt And Contemporaneous Normal (?) Faulting, In Which The Range Was Uplifted Along A Scarp Forming The East Slope. Nappe-Like And Z-Shaped Later Faulted Folds. Direction Of Compression Is Ew.
AlterationConspicuously Lacking, Except For Supergene Oxidation Resulting In Universal Hg Minerals And Native Hg.
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1890
Last production1943
Identification
Deposit ID10050451
MRDS IDMX22000
Alternate namesEl Abra Mines, Guadalupana
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates22.66715, -101.20038
References
BABB, P., 1909, DULCES NOMBRES QUICKSILVER DEPOSIT, MEXICO: ENG. AND MIN. JOUR., V. 88, NO. 14, PP. 684-686.GALLAGHER, D., 1942, MEMO TO MR. HEWITT, RECON. VISIT TO DULCES NOMBRES, USGS.STORM, L.W., 1942, RECON. REPT. ON DULCES NOMBRES-GUADALUPANA MINES, USGS, UNPUBLISHED.BABB, 1909.BABB, 1909; GALLAGHER, 1942