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Cerro De Mercado

Producer in Durango, Mexico with commodity Iron
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107388
MRDS ID W032793
Record type Site
Current site name Cerro De Mercado
Alternate or previous names El Cerro De Mercado

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.66714, 24.05042 (WGS84)
Elevation 2100
Relative position 3 KM N OF DURANGO CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Mexico Durango

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Augite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 158
USGS model code 25i
Deposit model name Volcanic-hosted magnetite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
    Rock unit name Rhyolite, Latite
    Rock description Rhyolite, Latite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.66714, 24.05042
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, PINCH OUT AT DEPTH
    Dip WEST
    Thickness 65M
    Length 800M
    Width 150M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FLORES, 1950.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE PROCESSED BY COMPANIA FUNDIDORA DE FIERRO Y ACERO DE MONTERREY, S.A., IN NUEVO LEON (1950).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FLORES, TEODORO, 1950, GEOLOGIC AND STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF MEXICO: ECON. GEOL., 1950; V. 45, P. 105-126

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LARGEST OF FOUR ORE BODIES DESCRIBED ABOVE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey

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