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El Picacho

Past Producer in Sonora, Mexico with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10049054
MRDS ID MX00267
Record type Site
Current site name El Picacho
Alternate or previous names La Florencia
Related records 10280009

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.75066, 29.23354 (WGS84)
Elevation 1000
Relative position ADJACENT TO EL NUBLADO PROSPECT.

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.75066, 29.23354
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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 Picacho

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION AS OF 1943, WHEN PROPERTY WAS INVESTIGATED FOR W DEPOSITS, BUT LATER WENT INTO GOLD PRODUCTION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WIESE, JOHN H., AND CARDENAS, SALVADOR, 1945, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF SONORA, MEXICO: USGS BULL 946, P. 103-130.

  • Deposit

    SILBERMAN, MILES, 1987, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.

  • Production

    M. SILBERMAN, 1987, PERS. COM.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD VEINS MINED. ALSO DISCONTINUOUS TACTITE LENSES SIMILAR TO THOSE ON THE EL NUBLADO CLAIM CARRY SMALL AMOUNTS OF SCHEELITE AND OXIDIZED CU MINERALS.

Reporter information

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

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

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