La Prieta-Prietta

Overview

Massive sulfides, dissemination, shoots, balls, small pipes, irregular streaks, lenses. La Prieta 900 m strike length, 200 m vertical depth, shoots 30-70 m long, 70-80 m high, 10 m thick; Prietita 150 m strike length, 3-15 m thick, dip 10-45?N at 50 m depth; Coloradita 120 m long, 80 m wide, 11 m thick; Corozon 150 m long, 60 m wide stockwork; pyrite-quartz stockwork in footwall of Chivos de Arriba. Calc-alkaline island arc setting.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1980

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS