San Antonio

Prospect in Sonora, Mexico with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205910
MAS/MILS ID 2010490002
Record type Site
Current site name San Antonio

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -109.25062, 29.10022 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

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

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -109.25062, 29.10022

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Other

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Laminco Resources (Formerly Golden News Resources)
    Home office Canada
    Year 1995
  • Type Owner
    Owner Placer Dome
    Year 1996
    First year 1996

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORTHERN MINER, JAN 23, 1995, P 11

  • Deposit

    NORTHERN MINER, MAR 27, 1995, P 3

  • Deposit

    "LAMINCO PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDY CONFIRMS MINEABLE GOLD AND

  • Deposit

    COPPER RESOURCES." LATIN AMERICA MINING RECORD, 11-96,P23

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CURRENT MINEABLE OPEN PIT, HEAP LEACHABLE GOLD RESOURCES OF 2.12 MILLION TONNES GRADING 1.98 G/T AND UNDERGROUND RESOURCES OF 1.13 MILLION TONNES GRADING 4.26 G/T. IN THE DATABASE IN ANOTHER SAN ANTONIO, A PAST PRODUCER IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA. MAYBE THE SAME? THE CONCESSION IS 50-SQ-MI.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-APR-1997 Clarke, Donald U.S. Bureau of Mines

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:

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.