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El Transito Mine

Producer in Valle, Honduras with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Reserves and resources
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10086046
MRDS ID W701944
Record type Site
Current site name El Transito Mine
Alternate or previous names Transito Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.5964, 13.51424 (WGS84)
Relative position 10 MI SE OF GOASCORAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valle(province)

Honduras(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Honduras Valle

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 14 IN VEIN OF 0.5 OZ/TON AU, 18.0 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -87.5964, 13.51424
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name El Transito

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    First year 1944

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1939
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 14.117 g/mt Gold Major 1939
    Silver Ag 508.241 g/mt Silver Major 1939

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 171,413 TONNES

Comments on the workings information

  • P:MINE WITH THREE LEVELS

Comments on development

  • OCCURRENCE DESERVING MORE EXPLORATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EXPE.#4.DGMH

  • Deposit

    ROBERTS, R.J., AND IRVING, E.M., 1957, MINERAL DEPOSITS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: USGS BULLETIN 1034, P. 181.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THICKNESS 20-30 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1983 Bliss, James D. (Translator) Ministerio de Recursos Naturales de la Republica de Honduras
Updater 01-JAN-1992 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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