Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
Sonora | state |
Mexico | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
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El Tecolote | Past Producer | ZN CU AG W PB MO BI NI |
El Tecolote | Past Producer | ZN BI CU PB MO NI AG W |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Location |
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unclassified | Sonora, Mexico | |
El Tecolote | Past Producer | Sonora, Mexico |
El Tecolote | Past Producer | Sonora, Mexico |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
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Western Sierra Madre Occidental and Laramide Central | porphyry copper | Belt of Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene (Laramide) magmatic arc rocks in the Sierra Madre Occidental, eastern Mexican Basin and Range, and the Mesa Central of north-central Mexico and extensions north in to the U.S |
Tertiary Central Plateau and Rocky Mountains | porphyry copper | Belt of middle Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) granitic to intermediate intrusive rocks & volcanics associated w/post-Laramide stage of magmatism in northern Mexico and Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated w/post-subduction extension in eastern Rocky Mtns |
Western Mexican Basin and Range and Laramide Southwest | porphyry copper | Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene island arc and continental arc rocks along the western margin of Mexico and extending north into the U.S. |