Model 25b—Con

GRADE AND TONNAGE MODEL OF CREEDE EPITHERMAL VEINS

grade By Dan L. Mosier, Takeo Sato, and Donald A. Singer is correlated

with zinc grade (r = -0.52, n = 22). See figs. 107-112.

Country Name Country

USCO Nogal USNM

USCO Oe JAPN
PERU Ogane Quartz + adularia + JAPN
PERU Ophir USCO
illite + Ag- and base-
NCGA Pachuca-Real del Monte
metal sulfides
MXCO
PERU Red Mountain USCO
USCO Rio Pallanga _ Pre-"higher level" PERU
MXCO Sai quartz + illite ± JAPN
USCO Sneffels
Possible" kaolinite + sulfide USCO
barren capping
igal JAPN Telluride USCO
PERU zone _____
Toyoha JAPN
USCO Uruachic MXCO
AGTN Yatani JAPN
_ I Early quartz + Ag- and
PERU Base of Au-Ag — base- [ metal sulfides +
Barren quartz + calcite ±
adularia
fluorite ± barite
Former surface
_Vein 200m Quartz +
structure kaolinite
^3/.. + alunite

o
4^ \ ’• * v V l! \ ^ Silicification
i/k\ ’• 7 Quartz + illite
o \VXx
.1/ V.
<b
\}\A J + pyrite
VVJ
I Quartz + illite +
E Y/P . native metals +
^ ]/
ws/ sulfarsenides +
Bonanza ------------------ Vu
and/or vw C>jt sulfantimonides
sxockwork fr Jr* +Ag- and base-
Y metal sulfides

cross section of typical Creede-

deposit.

Figure 106. Cartoon

type epithermal vein