CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
354 Mexico (Durango) 24.03.15 N -- 104.38.00 W Cerro de Mercado Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Cerro de Mercado
Political location(s): Mexico; Province or state: Durango; Nearest community: Durango
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: volcanogenic stratabound; Mercado Iron Member includes four facies: layered martite, sandy magnetite, blocky, and tabular and dyke-like bodies
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: medium; Status comments: Cerro de Mercado deposits were mined in 1950s; the main deposit was mined by open pit at a rate of 2000 to 4000 tpd; the ore averaged 65 to 70 % Fe
Geologic province: Sierra Madre Occidental Volcanic Province
Geologic district: Cerro de Mercado
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Oligocene (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental (host rocks)
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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