Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Pena Morada |
Political location(s): |
Mexico; Province or state: Durango |
Deposit clan (type): |
Unclassified |
Deposit (sub) types: |
volcanogenic iron oxide; Mercado Iron Member includes four facies: breccia, layered and laminated powdery hematite |
Geologic province: |
Sierra Madre Occidental Volcanic Province |
Geologic district: |
Cerro de Mercado |
Commodities: |
Fe |
Geological ages: |
Oligocene (mineralization) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) volcanic; intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: subaerial; Metamorphic grade: unmetamorphosedExternal host rock forms: | flows ash flow tuffs | Individual lithologies: | rhyolite quartz latite |
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References: |
Lyons, J. I., 1988 |
Volcanogenic Iron Oxide Deposits, Cerro de Mercado and Vicinity, Durango, Mexico |
Economic Geology, Volume 83, p. 1886 - 1906 |
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