Contessa Mine, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexicoi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Contessa Mine | Mine |
| Santa Eulalia Mining District | Mining District |
| Aquiles Serdán Municipality | Municipality |
| Chihuahua | State |
| Mexico | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
28° North , 105° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~3km
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
10319
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:10319:7
GUID (UUID V4):
e9ca36a8-b2d2-4a5c-acb1-8e3ed9b8365c
Name(s) in local language(s):
Mina la Contessa, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ref.: Rocks & Min.:61:12.
There is no Contessa or Condesa Mine. There is a deep orebody known as the Condesa Chimney that lies on the Condesa Trend (fault) but it is accessed solely through the principal workings of the Potosi Mine.
These gypsums, as well as limpid manganese-oxide and goethite-included quartz crystals, pale lavender spiky creedite and minor palid rhodochrosite come from the A-10 or Inglaterra Orebody of the Inglaterra Mine. At the time these gypsums were collected, the Condesa Chimney was actively mined so the general area became informally called "Condesa" by the collectors...but never the miners
There is continous mineralization between the Condesa Chimney and the Inglaterra Orebody...and continuous stoping, but the deepest workings of the Inglaterra Mine proper (ie where mineralization was extracted through the Inglaterra workings) are on the 5th Level of the Inglaterra, which is equivalent to the 10th Level of the Potosi Mine. The Condesa Chimney extends from the 10th level of the Potosi Mine down to below the 22nd level
The Inglaterra Shaft was almost exclusively used as a man-way and only for hoisting ore a long time ago (pre-1950s). After that the ore was extracted through the principal workings of the Potosi Mine. The Inglaterra Shaft had a watchman who was easily bribed and it was a popular entrance point for collectors trying to access the older Potosi Mine workings
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Rhodochrosite Formula: MnCO3 References: |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Rhodochrosite | 5.AB.05 | MnCO3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Rhodochrosite | MnCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Rhodochrosite | MnCO3 |
| Mn | Manganese | |
| Mn | ⓘ Rhodochrosite | MnCO3 |
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