Tamaulipas
Past Producer

La Florencia Mine

Tamaulipas, Mexico
Copper
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Commodities
PrimaryCopper
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeContact Metamorphic
Model59: Skarn Cu
Deposit sizeY
WorkingsUnderground
Ore controlThree Sets Of Fractures
Materials
Ore mineralsChrysocolla
GangueLimonite, Pyrite
Geology
Host rockLimestone
AlterationGarnetization Along Fracture Zones In Diorite Porphyry, Recrystallization Of Limestone
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10050477
MRDS IDMX25019
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates24.67541, -99.07755
References
BASTIN, E.S., 1937, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN CARLOS MOUNTAINS, IN KELLUM, L.B., ED., THE GEOLOGY AND BIOLOGY OF THE SAN CARLOS MOUNTAINS, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO: ANN ARBOR, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, P. 159-206.KEMP, J.F., 1906, THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF SAN JOSE, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO: AIME TRANS., V. 36, P. 178-203.CIMRI