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La Caridad
Sonora, Mexico
Main commodities: Cu Mo




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2000.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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La Caridad

    Selected References
Noury, M. and Calmus, T.,  2021 - Exhumation history of the La Caridad and Suaqui Verde porphyry copper deposits in the eastern Basin and Range province of Sonora: Insights from thermobarometry and apatite thermochronology: in    J. of South American Earth Sciences   v.105, 20p. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102893.
Saegart, W.E., Sell, J.D. and Kilpatrick, B.E.,  1974 - Geology and Mineralization of La Caridad Porphyry Copper Deposit, Sonora, Mexico : in    Econ. Geol.   v.69, pp. 1060-1077.
Santillana-Villa, C., Valencia-Moreno, M., Del Rio-Salas, R. and Ochoa-Landin, L.,  2021 - Geochemical variations of precursor and ore-related intrusive rocks associated with porphyry copper deposits in Sonora, northwestern Mexico: in    J. of South American Earth Sciences   v.105, 22p. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102823.
Valencia, V.A., Eastoe, C., Ruiz, J., Ochoa-Landin, L., Gehrels, G., Gonzalez-Leon, C., Barra, F. and Espinoza, E.,  2008 - Hydrothermal Evolution of the Porphyry Copper Deposit at La Caridad, Sonora, Mexico, and the Relationship with a Neighboring High-Sulfidation Epithermal Deposit: in    Econ. Geol.   v.103, pp. 473-491.
Valencia, V.A., Ruiz, J., Barra, F., Geherls, G., Ducea, M., Titley, S.R. and Ochoa-Landin, L.,  2005 - U-Pb zircon and Re-Os molybdenite geochronology from La Caridad porphyry copper deposit: insights for the duration of magmatism and mineralization in the Nacozari District, Sonora, Mexico: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.40, pp. 175-191.
Valencia-Moreno, M., Ochoa-Landin, L., Noguez-Alcantara, B., Ruiz, J., and Perez-Segura, E.,  2007 - Geological and metallogenetic characteristics of the porphyry copper deposits of Mexico and their situation in the world context: in Alaniz-Alvarez, S.A. and Nieto-Samaniego, A.F., (Eds.), 2007 Geology of Mexico: Cele brating the Centenary of the Geological Society of Mexico: Geological Society of America,   Special Paper 422, pp. 433-458.


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