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Digenite from
La Caridad Mine, La Caridad, Nacozari de García Municipality, Sonora, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Digenite
Formula:Cu9S5
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Digenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Caridad Mine, La Caridad, Nacozari de García Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:55685
Long-form Identifier:1:3:55685:5
GUID (UUID V4):0b4f15ed-78f6-420b-b10c-944b72eb8254
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evolution of the Porphyry Copper Deposit at La Caridad, Sonora, Mexico, and the Relationship with a Neighboring...LUCAS OCHOA-LANDIN, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Sonora, Rosales y Transversal, Hermosillo...Noroeste, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Hermosillo Sonora, México FERNANDO BARRA, Department...Arizona 85721, and Instituto de Geologia Economica Aplicada, Universidad de Concepción, Chile AND ENRIQUE...ENRIQUE ESPINOZA Grupo Mexico, Unidad La Caridad, Sonora, Mexico Abstract Four main stages of alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologyand Mineralizationof La CaridadPorphyry Copper Deposit, Sonora,Mexico W. E. SAEGART, J. D. SELL...ANDB. E. KILPATRICK Abstract La Caridad,locatedin northeastern Sonora,Mexico,is a recentlydiscovered major...carried out an extensive exploration program. The La Caridadporphyrycopperdepositoccursexclusively in...percentcopperin the chalcocitezone. The rocksat La Caridad have been oxidized and almostcompletelyleachedof...arroyoson its north and southflanks. Two arroyos, Tu•. La Caridaddepositis locatedin northeastern the Coloraditoon
Report (issue)
SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO By Kenneth R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey...Figure 4. of Mineral Deposits in Northwestern Mexico Los Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District... Preliminary Deposit-Type Map of Northwestern Mexico Kenneth R. Leonard Introduction The following...economic data on mineral deposits and occurrences in Sonora, North Baja California, South Baja California and...and the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico. The area is important for the evaluation or mineral deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Yuchiling deposit (Li et al. 2009b). Later LA-ICPMS zircon U–Pb studies (Li et al. 2012a) indicated...Deposita (2013) 48:505–524 507 Fig. 2 Regional and mine geology of the Yuchiling district. a Regional geology...andesites, and dacites, with minor rhyolites. SHRIMP and LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages indicate that eruption of...biotite. The proportion of biotite is less than 5 vol%. LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb analyses indicate an intrusion...(8–15 vol%) and larger phenocrysts (∼1.5×2.5 cm). LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb dating has constrained its intrusion
Report (issue)
Susana A. Alaniz-Álvarez Centro de Geociencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Apartado postal 1-742...F. Nieto-Samaniego Centro de Geociencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Apartado postal 1-742...Mexicana in the following issues of the Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Volumen Conmemorativo...Grandes Fronteras Tectónicas de México, and no. 2, Aspectos Históricos de la Geología en México, edited...Ángel F. Nieto-Samaniego; and no. 3, Temas Selectos de la Geología Mexicana, edited by Ángel F. Nieto-Samaniego
Book (volume)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, MEXICO The Geology of North America O r > W 4^ *1^ ^ ^ \ \ f ax4 u \ \...Economic Geology^ Mexico Edited by Guillermo P. Salas Geologo Consultor Asesor del Consejo de Recursos Minerales...Centro Minero Nacional Carretera Mexico-Pachuca Pachuca, Hgo., Mexico, D.F. 1991 EXPLORATION LIBRARY...reserved. Geologia economica de Mexico. English. Economic geology, Mexico / edited by Guillermo P. Salas...America ; v. P-3) Translation of Geologia economica de Mexico. Includes bibliography references and index. ISBN
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"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...Berkshire RG 11 2PY, England Yan Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i
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anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...Berkshire RG11 2PY, England Van Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Boletin nuimeros 40 and 41 (Instituto Geoldgico de México, 1922, 1923), has an author been able
Report (issue)
........................................... P20 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ P25 Mine Closure...................................................... P11 Pie chart showing world rhenium mine production in 2012, by country and percent of world...substitute for molybdenum in molybdenite. Annual world mine production of rhenium is about 50 metric tons. Nearly...Chile account for about 55 percent of the world’s mine production of rhenium; rhenium is also recovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sericitically altered rock, pyrite-chalcocite-digenite-bornite veins exhibit centimeters- to meters-wide...approximately 1.5 km south-southeast of shaft 9 of the Magma mine and 120 km north of the city of Tucson, Arizona...Bisbee Patagonia Milpillas Mariquita El Alacrán La Caridad Florida / Barrigón 111" Copper Flat / Hillsboro...Tyrone Chino NEW MEXICO Copper mine, present or past producer Maria Cananea SONORA Pinos Altos Porphyry...supergene enrichment (Ransome, 1914). Renamed the Magma mine, over the succeeding decades the base metal lode
Report (issue)
include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg in Indonesia, and...of the Questa porphyry molybdenum deposit in New Mexico suggests that the ore fluid was probably derived...early-stage veins contain bornite, digenite, and chalcocite wherein digenite occurs as exsolution lamellae...in the bornite and chalcocite rims the bornite-digenite grains. Crosscutting veins contain chalcopyrite...chalcopyrite ± pyrite replaced some early-stage bornite + digenite ± chalcocite. Cubanite has been reported from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rodrigues de Assis,1,† Roberto Perez Xavier,2 and Robert A. Creaser3 1 Instituto 2 Instituto de Geociências...Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Avenida 24 A, No. 1515, Rio Claro, São Paulo 13506–900, Brazil de Geociências...Geociências, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Jaão, Paniá Calogerás, No. 51, Campinas, São...southern portion of the Amazon craton (Brazil) (Paes de Barros, 2007). These primary deposits have been historically...chalcopyrite and hematite (Moura et al., 2006; Paes de Barros, 2007; Assis, 2011; Rodrigues, 2012; Trevisan
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label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco Antônio Delinardo da Silva, Benevides...83, p. 11–13. Sillitoe, R.H., Perelló, J., and García, A., 2010, Sulfide-bearing veinlets throughout...1968, Dick then spent three years with the Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas (Chilean Geological Survey)...organizations, acted as Associate Editor, Revista Geológica de Chile (1986−present), Member of the Editorial Board
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the most representative examples occurring in Mexico. The occurrence of the two subtypes of IS are largely...being the important source of precious metals for Mexico, the United States, Canada, Chile, Peru, Papua...based on a summary of 35 of epithermal deposits in Mexico, noting an atypical epithermal style with upper...polymetallic mineralization (Zn-Pb-Cu), largely located in Mexico (Camprubí and Albinson, 2007). 3. Distribution...the 750-km-long Sierra Madre Occidental belt in Mexico (e.g., Tayoltita), the 100-km-long Zamora belt
Book (volume)
Iran ian P o rp h y ry C u-M o-A u D eposits Brent LA. Mclnnes, Noreen J. Evans, Frank Q, Fut Steve Garwin...lm alyk (K a rm ak y r-D a ln e e ) and S au k b u la k C u-A u P o rp h y ry System s, U zbekistan IgorM...many of the deposits in western North America in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada (see Phillips et al.; McMillan;...containing >10 Mt Cu include Chuquicamata, El Abra, La Escondida and El Teniente in Chile, Cerro Colorado...in Indonesia, Sar Cheshmeh in Iran, Cananea in Mexico, and Bingham Canyon in the USA (Clark, 1993). This
Report (volume)
based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...government believed might someday be economic ta mine. Stratiform deposits of large areal extent, such...EXAMPLES High Plateau, Del Norte Cty, USCA Coto Mine, Luzon, PLPN (Wells and others, 1946) (LeBlanc...DEPOSITS Name Ace of Spades Adobe Canyon Gp. Ajax Alice Mine Allan (Johnson) Alta Hill Althouse Alyce and Blue
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within it. Samples which have been collected in a mine or open pit exhibit more abundant reflections as...Chalcocite T etrahedrite / T ennantite Chalcocite, Digenite* Bornite Chalcopyrite Bornite Cubanite Sphalerite...the textures exhibited in the samples or in the mine or outcrop and report on the features which may... Germany), Comstock (Nevada, USA), Guanajuato (Mexico), Colquechaca (Bolivia), Jachymov (Czechoslovakia)...USA) and various localities in Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. HNO 3 : brownish yellow; effervescence. KCN: stains
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sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Paredes J.) in Bellido and de Montreuil (1972). Abbreviations: CP=Cerro de Pasco; M=Morococha; Ml=Mala...around the Andean Batholith of Peru (Bellido and de Montreuil, 1972; Putzer, 1976; Hollister, 1978) is...major Pb,Zn,Ag replacements and veins (e.g. Cerro de Pasco, Casapalca; Chapter 26), all marked by intensive...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite
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600 . 3 1 100m__ M U IV 11 pp ah ry tsii ac la l dd e a tt iaot ni o n , eh f oyrdmr a •H 4-1...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Paredes J.) in Bellido and de Montreuil (1972). Abbreviations: CP=Cerro de Pasco; M=Morococha; Ml=Mala...around the Andean Batholith of Peru (Bellido and de Montreuil, 1972; Putzer, 1976; Hollister, 1978) is...major Pb,Zn,Ag replacements and veins (e.g. Cerro de Pasco, Casapalca; Chapter 26), all marked by intensive
Report (issue)
Sierra, and Luis Jaramillo Cortes Institute Nacional de Investigaciones Geologico-Mineras Open-File Report...of Colombia, completed by the Institute Nacional de Investigaciones GeologicoMineras and the U.S. Geological...U.S. Geological Survey and the Institute Nacional de Investigaciones Geologico-Mineras began a cooperative...such areas may be appropriate. 12° SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA Figure 1. Geologic provinces of Colombia...States). (3) The Cordillera Oriental and Serrania de Perija, which contain cores of Precambrian and Paleozoic
Book (volume)
cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Hollywood, CA; David C. & Barbara T. Smith, Four Clover Mine, Castro Valley, CA; Lita R. Smith-Gharet, Steel...Map of amber mines in Simojovel area, Chiapas, MeXiCO........ssseseeereeeree Figure 2. Map of amber... Entrance to the La Toca amber mine, Dominican Republic... Figure 5. Blood Mine of-Korite: ltd: near
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reasons for the approach taken Mineral deposit or mine? A genetic model as the basis for exploration The...many geologists who have given their time during mine visits and responded to our queries. We have benefited...Decline Doline A downward inclined tunnel into a mine or potential ore body. A funnel-shaped depression...shaft excavated upwards for connecting levels in a mine or ore body. Ripping The removal of overburden...of the problems which face the mine geologist. The function of the mine geologist varies considerably
Book (edition)
• t --•- """"" ' The Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By...measurements have been retained in specific cases such as mine levels when measured in feet, values of gold and...Cheney, F. W. Christiansen, W. J. Christiansen, G. de V. Klein, E. Erickson , M. P. Erickson, R. R. Shrock...acquisition of the western part of the United States from Mexico and Spain. A glance at the history of development...developing an annual ton of new copper capacity from mine through the refinery without intrastructure costs
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
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Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous...ilmenite crystals as described here for the Dodo mine. In general, ilmenite crystals from the Subpolar
 
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