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El Trinidad Group

Past Producer in San Luis Potosi, Mexico with commodity Mercury
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001067
MRDS ID MX22002
Record type District
Current site name El Trinidad Group
Alternate or previous names San Antonio De Padua Mine, San Jose, Sangre De Cristo, Las Animas

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -100.50036, 23.00048 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Mexico San Luis Potosi

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) LIMESTONE IS SEVERELY BRECCIATED BY GEYSER ACTION TO A GRAVEL OR IMPERVIOUS GRAVELLY CLAY. THE GYPSUM BEDS ARE ALSO DERIVED FROM LIMESTONE.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -100.50036, 23.00048
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description PRE-ORE FAULTS AND FISSURES (INTRUSION ASSOCIATED?)

Controls for ore emplacement

  • DISTINCT FISSURE ON FAULT SYSTEM, OFTEN PARALLELING BEDDING. MINERALIZATION OF FOOTWALL OF FAULT BRECCIAS IS COMMON.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COLLINS, H.F., 1897, QUICKSLIVER MINING IN THE DISTRICT OF GUADALCAZAR, STATE OF SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO: INST. MINING METALL TRANS., V. 4, P. 121-150.

  • Deposit

    MOCTEAR, J. 1897, MINING AND METALLURGY OF QUICKSILVER IN MEXICO: INST. MINING METALL. TRANS., V. 4, P. 64-120.

  • Deposit

    WITTICH, E., AND ROGOTZY, F., 1921, LA GEOLOGIA DE LA REGION MINERO DE GUADALCAZAR, SAN LUIS POTOSI: BOL. MINERO, V. 12

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED USGS REPORT, 1959.

Beyond USGS

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

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