Tizapa

Overview

Massive pyrite-rich lenses, 5 main orebodies, 10-50 m apart, 3-14 m thick, in imbricated stacks due to faulting and folding. Widespread disseminations, bands, stringers pyrite-chalcopyrite in footwall (feeder zone). N-dipping fault cuts ore deposit. Calc-alkaline island arc setting.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-mafic in epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Operator: 0

Production Start: 1994

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS | coordinate: Mindat