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Mesa Del Alamo

Prospect in Sonora, Mexico with commodities Boron-Borates, Zeolites
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10049111
MRDS ID MX00340
Record type Site
Current site name Mesa Del Alamo
Alternate or previous names El Alamo, Magdalena, Magdalena De Kino
Related records 10232650

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.91178, 30.59322 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 9 KM E OF MAGDALENA DE KINO, SONORA., Estimated, Within 1 Km.

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
Boron-Borates Primary
Zeolites Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MCANULTY AND HOFFER (1972) DESCRIBE THE HOWLITE AS FINE-GRAINED AND MASSIVE. CALCITE AFTER COLEMANITE HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS LOCATION AND COLEMANITE HAS BEEN REPORTED 0.5 MILES DOWNSTREAM FROM THE WESTERNMOST HOWLITE OCCURRENCE. COLEMANITE HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED AT A MAGDALENA CITY WEST EXCAVATION AND AT A GYPSUM MINE SEVERAL KMS SW OF MESA DEL ALAMO.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clinoptilolite Ore
Phillipsite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 260
USGS model code 35b.3
Deposit model name Lacustrine borates

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.91178, 30.59322
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting; Small Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form STRATIFORM

Comments on the geologic information

  • LACUSTRINE SEQUENCE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Magdalena

Comments on development

  • MATERIAS PRIMAS MAGDALENA ( JOINT VENTURE OF U.S. BORAX AND VITRO CORP.) WAS EXPLORING THE PROSPECT, BUT WAS DISSOLVED IN 1992.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PEREZ SEGURA, EFREN, 1985, CARTA METALOGENETICA DE SONORA 1:250000 UNA INTERPRETACION DE LA METALOGENIA DE SONORA: UNIV. OF SONORA, DEPT. OF GEOL., HERMOSILLO, MEXICO, 66 P.

  • Deposit

    LEFOND, S.J., AND BARKER, J.M., 1979, A BORATE AND ZEOLITE OCCURRENCE NEAR MAGDALENA, SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 74, NO. 8, P. 1883-1889.

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., SR., AND HOFFER, J.M., 1972, A NEW HOWLITE OCCURRENCE IN SONORA, MEXICO: BOLETIN SOC. GEOLO. MEXICANA, V. 33, NO. 1, P. 21-24.

  • Deposit

    GONZALEZ S., J.R., 1985, RECURSOS MINERALES NO METALICOS Y ROCAS INDUSTRIALES DEL ESTADO DE SONORA: HERMOSILLO, SONORA, DIRECCION DE MINERIA, GEOLOGIA Y ENERGETICOS, 44 P.

  • Deposit

    ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES LTD., 1993, THE ECONOMICS OF BORON 1993, 7TH ED.: LONDON, ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES LTD., 156 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE VEINS (2-30 CM WIDE) AND NODULES OF HOWLITE IN INTERBEDDED TUFFACEOUS SHALE AND SILTY SANDSTONE WITH INTERBEDS OF LITHIC TUFF, ZEOLITIC TUFF, AND TUFFACEOUS MUDSTONES CONTAINING MINOR DISSEMINATED CLINOPTILOLITE. HOWLITE VEINS ARE SHORT, ENCHELON AND NORMAL TO THE BEDDING. ONE VEIN IS IN A FAULT ZONE. SOME OF THE VEIN MINERALIZATION IS PARALLEL TO BEDDING.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-88 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Page, Norman J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-92 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

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