Suriana

Overview

Massive sulfide lenses, stringers, disseminations, 1200 m long, 2-80 m thick, strike NW, dips 40-75?SW. Network of quartz-sericite-pyrite in felsic rocks associated with upper portion of massive sulfide bodies. 2 fault systems, N70?E and N10?E, displace orebodies. Calc-alkaline island arc setting.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-mafic in epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1903

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS