Placer De Guadalupe

Past Producer in Chihuahua, Mexico with commodities Gold, Uranium, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  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 10049537
MRDS ID MX02277
Record type Site
Current site name Placer De Guadalupe
Alternate or previous names La Virgen, Bolanos, San Blas
Related records 10182668

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.43385, 29.14606 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Presidio(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country State
Mexico Chihuahua

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATED TO NEAREST 15 SECONDS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Malachite Gangue
Pyrolusite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Uranophane Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic, Kaolinitic

Analytical data

Result AVG. GRADE: 30 G/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.43385, 29.14606

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • EARLY CRETACEOUS CARBONATES OVERLYING PRE-CRETACEOUS SHALES; INTRUDED BY TERTIARY(?) GRANODIORITIC PORPHYRY. LOCALLY DEVELOPED CONTACT METAMORPHISM. THE GEOLOGY OF PLACER DE GUADALUPE RANGE IS DESCRIBED BY BRIDGES, 1964A; BRIDGES, 1964B; BRIDGES, 1970; AND CLARK AND PONCE, 1983 P.80

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1868

Mining district

District name /Aldama

Comments on development

  • MAJOR UNDERGROUND MINING ACTIVITY: 1887-1917.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GONZALEZ REYNA, J., 1956, MEMORIA GEOLOGICO-MINERA DEL ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA: CONGRESO GEOLOGICO INTERNACIONAL, 20TH, DURANGO, MEXICO, 1956, P. 185-192.

  • Deposit

    GONZALEZ REYNA, J., 1946, LOS CRIADEROS DE URANIO Y ORO EN PLACER DE GUADALUPE Y PUERTO DEL AIRE, ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA: COMITE DIRECTIVO PARA LA INVESTIGACION DE LOS RECURSOS MINERALES DE MEXICO (CRNNR BOLETIN 5).

  • Deposit

    CLARK, K.F, AND PONCE, S., B.F., 1983

  • Deposit

    BRIDGES, L.W., 1964A,

  • Deposit

    BRIDGES, L.W., 1964B,

  • Deposit

    BRIDGES, L.W., 1970,

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MID. JURASSIC SEDIMENTS OVERLAY APPROXIMATELY 7,000 M OF PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTS (ORDOVICIAN TO PERMIAN). ACCORDING TO CLARK AND PONCE, 1983, NO WHERE IN CHIHUAHUA IS THERE EVIDENCE OF LATE PERMIAN- E JURASSIC SEDIMENTS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB
Deposit AU AND URANINITE IN QUARTZ-CALCITE VEINS AND STRINGERS, NW-TRENDING, UP TO 4 M WIDE. PORPHYRY HANGING WALL AND SHALEY LIMESTONE FOOTWALL. AU AND U VALUES FLUCTUATED WITH COMPOSITION OF GANGUE. CALCITE > QUARTZ: GOOD VALUES OF AU AND U. CALCITE = QUARTZ: LOWER GRADE AU-U. QUARTZ > CALCITE: AU WITH LITTLE OR NO U. QUARTZ ONLY: BARREN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1988 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Page, Norman J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Kibbe, R.D. (Staude, J-M.G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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