Bailadores

Overview

Minimum tonnage: 3.5 million t @ 2.0% Cu, 17% Zn, 6% Pb, 68 g/t Ag, open at depth. Massive to semi-massive in two layers, separated by a few meters of ash tuff, 1150 m strike length, 70-250 m down-dip extent, 14.9 m thick (lower horizon), 10.8 m (upper horizon), open along strike and depth; banded layers; dissemination in footwall and hanging wall,stringer chalcopyrite-pyrite in footwall, but no stringer zone yet defined. SW end of deposit offset 150 m by NW-trending left-lateral fault.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1876

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS