Nuevo Mercurio District

Producer in Zacatecas, Mexico with commodity Mercury
Sections on this page
  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. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001078
MRDS ID MX29009
Record type District
Current site name Nuevo Mercurio District
Alternate or previous names Opal District, Camacho District, San Marcos, El Amparo, Santa Maria, El Coyote, San Lorenzo, San Jose, Oisa, San Isidro

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -102.36711, 23.08376 (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 Zacatecas

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) SILICIFICATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -102.36711, 23.08376

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N 70 E FOLDS OF 3 SIZE ORDERS; THRUSTS DEVELOPED ALONG FOLD AXES AND ELSEWHERE; RETICULATE FRACTURES; N 10 E AND N 30 W; WIDE BRECCIA ZONES, N 70 E AND N 30 W. BAOUDARY FAULT, A RANGE FAULT, NW MORE HORST FAULTING ALONG N 70 E TREND, WITH GREATEST UPLIFT OF CENTRAL CLAVO BLOCK.
Type of structure Regional
Structure description REGIONAL TILT OF 25 SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • BEST ORE AT INTERSECTION OF ANTICLINE AXES AND N 30 W FRACTURES. THE SYNCLINES AND N 10 E FRACTURES ARE BARREN. BEST ORE FOUND IN CENTRAL BLOCK, WHICH IS STRATIGRAPHICALLY LOWER AND HAS LESS SHALE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1940

Mining district

District name NUEVO MERCURIO DISTRICT
District name OPAL DISTRICT
District name CAMACHO DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GALLAGHER, D., AND PEREZ-SILICEO, 1943, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON NUEVO MERCURIO: UNPUBLISHED USGS REPORT.

  • Deposit

    GALLAGHER, D., 1942, NUMEROUS LETTERS AND MEMOS TO MR. HEWETT, UNPUBLISHED.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E., 1959, NUEVO MERCURIO DISTRICT, UNPUBLISHED SUMMARY.

Beyond USGS

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