Rey de Plata

Overview

Several sulfide lenses and bodies. Zoned with Cu upwards, Zn-Pb downwards, capped by jasper. Tehuixtla is largest body, 250 m below surface, 2-18 m thick, dips 25?SW, lenticular, with stockwork feeder zone beneath it. Barite lenses common. Quartz-sericite-pyrite halo up to 150 m over the ore layer. Calc-alkaline island arc setting.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-mafic in epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Operator: 0

Production Start: 1946

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS