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Porphyry copper prospect in Veracruz, Mexico

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 197
Tract name Eastern Alkaline Province (003pCu3010x)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Mexico
State or province Veracruz
Geographic location -96.453053052, 19.681245504
Geologic map unit -96.453053052, 19.681245504
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age determination method Geologic inference
Age range Tertiary(?)
Age reference geologic inference
Minerals barite, bornite, chalcopyrite, chlorite, clay minerals, epidote, galena, magnetite, pyrite, sphalerite
Associated rocks andesite
Tectonic setting postconvergence
Stratigraphic age Tertiary(?)

Commodity and development information

Development status Occurrence
Major commodities Cu, Au, Ag
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments Active prospect of Almaden Minerals Ltd.; porphyry Cu and high-sulfidation epithermal targets. 0.11 to 0.18% Cu and 0.23 to 0.72 g/t Au. Feldspar porphyry, skarn.
Study area name Mexico
References Almaden Minerals Ltd. (2008a); Martínez-Vergara and others (2002); Polinquin (2007); Singer and others (2008)
Site reference Hammarstrom and others (2010)
Almaden Minerals Ltd., 2008a, Caballo Blanco, Veracruz State [Mexico]: Almaden Minerals Ltd. Web page accessed May 15, 2009, at http://www.almadenminerals.com/Projects/CaballoBlanco.html.
Martínez-Vergara, Alvaro, Zárate-López, Javier, De La Calleja, Alfredo, and Jiménez-Hernández, Acel, 2002, Carta geológico–minera, Veracruz E14–3, Veracruz, Puebla, and Tlaxcala [Mexico]: Pachuca, Hidalgo, Servicio Geológico Mexicano, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Poliquin, Morgan, 2007, High-sulfidation epithermal quartz-alunite gold silver deposits and the Caballo Blanco project, Mexico: Almaden Minerals Ltd. Web page accessed May 15, 2009, at http://www.almadenminerals.com/Projects/Papers/Epithermal_CB.pdf.Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C., 2008, Porphyry copper deposits of the world—Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155, [45] p. and digital data, accessed December 31, 2013, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1155/.