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Martha mine, Macizo del Deseado, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Latitude: 48°41'35"S
Longitude: 69°41'55"W
Several fissured systems of silver veins. It was formed by hydrothermal activity due to vulcanism.

References

- Marquez-Zavalia, M.F. et al. (2008): Mineral. Petrol. 94, 145-150.
- GERARDO, N. Páez et al. Volcanostratigraphy of the Martha Mine silver bearing deposit, Deseado Massif, Santa Cruz Province. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. [online]. 2010, vol.67, n.1, pp. 77-90.
- González Guillot, M., De Barrio, R. and Ganem, F. 2004. Martha Mine, a silver epithermal deposit in the Deseado Massif, Santa Cruz. 7 th Congress of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Proceedings: 119-204. Rio Cuarto.
- Gonzalez Guillot, M., Biel Soria, C., Fanlo Gonzalez, I., Rose Perez, I. and Matthew Gonzalez, E. 2008. Gray copper sulfosalts Silver Epithermal Deposit of Mina Martha, Macizo del Deseado, Santa Cruz Province (Argentina). Journal of the Spanish Society of Mineralogy, Maclean (9): 127-128.

Mineral List

Acanthite
Arsenopyrite
Chalcopyrite
Freibergite
Galena
Gold
var: Electrum
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Marcasite
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Polybasite-Tac
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Silver
Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite


18 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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