CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
355 Mexico (Durango) 24.02.45 N -- 104.43.40 W Pena Morada Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
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: unmetamorphosed
External host rock forms:flows
ash flow tuffs
Individual lithologies:rhyolite
quartz latite
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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