Dos Cabezas

Past Producer in Sonora, Mexico with commodity Manganese

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Mineral occurrence model information
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10048846
MRDS ID	MX00015
Record type	Site
Current site name	Dos Cabezas
Related records	10230000

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-108.63394, 30.35018 (WGS84)
Relative position	70 KM W OF CASAS GRANDES, CHIHUAHUA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country	State
Mexico	Sonora

Comments on the location information

ESTIMATED TO WITHIN 1 KM.

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Manganese Critical	Primary

Comments on the commodity information

SILICA CONTENT OVER 18%.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code	156
USGS model code	25g
Deposit model name	Epithermal Mn

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-108.63394, 30.35018	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Past Producer
Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Col. Juarez

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	MX00015

Bibliographic references

Deposit

GUILD, PHILIP W., 1981, PRELIMINARY METALLOGENIC MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: LISTING OF DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 858-B, 72 P..
Deposit

TRASK, P.D. AND RODRIGUEZ C., J. JR., 1948, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF MEXICO: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 954-F, P. 273-276, 308-309, TABLE 17.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	MN-BEARING STRINGERS IN VOLCANIC ROCKS.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	01-JUN-1987	Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.)	U.S. Geological Survey
Updater	01-MAY-1988	Leonard, Kenneth R.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.