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West Texas Geological Society
Abstract
The Chihuahua City Uranium Province Chihuahua, Mexico
Abstract
The Chihuahua City region contains numerous uranium occurrences and deposits. Three areas are large, well mineralized and separated enough to be called districts. These consist of the Peña Blanca District where a uranium mine and mill are under construction. The Sierra Gomez District was subjected to intensive exploration mining and minor exploitation in the early 1970’s, but is presently abandoned. The San Marcos District is the most recently discovered, numerous rich prospects exist, and some exploration drilling has been done. Numerous other uranium occurrences are present in the Chihuahua region.
The deposits are hosted in igneous and volcaniclastic rocks, except Sierra Gomez which is in carbonates. The deposits probably formed from the leaching of uraniferous tuffs from the Sierra del Nido tectonic block and were transported by geothermalepithermal processes.
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