Overview
| Status | Temporary Suspension |
| Mine Type | Underground |
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The La Parrilla Silver Mine is a complex of underground operations consisting of the Rosarios, La Blanca and San Marcos mines which are interconnected through underground workings, and the Vacas and Quebradillas mines which are connected via above-ground gravel roads.
The La Parrilla operation was placed on temporary suspension on September 2, 2019. Exploration for new deposits continues with an emphasis on brownfield and greenfield targets within the property mineral concessions. |
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La Parrilla mine is owned and operated by First Majestic Plata, S.A. de C.V. (FMPlata) a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMS through its Mexican holding company, Corporación First Majestic, S.A. de C.V. (CFM).
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Deposit Type
- Vein / narrow vein
- Hydrothermal
Summary:
The mineralization at La Parrilla occurs in veins, breccias, stockworks and replacements that are hosted by the Cretaceous limestones and shales of the Indidura Formation and by the granodiorite–quartz monzonite intrusion. Contact metamorphism and metasomatism resulted in the development of marble, hornfels, skarnoid, and skarn at the intrusive contact. Because the mineralization is related to the intrusive contact and skarn development, the deposits are proposed to be of the intrusionrelated hydrothermal type, and may represent mesothermal to epithermal environments.
Veins at La Parrilla are of two types: open space filling veins and fault-veins. The open space filling veins can consist of massive sulphides veins; quartz-calcite veins containing pyrite, sphalerite, and galena; and breccia veins cemented by quartz-calcite. Fault-veins consists of matrix-supported breccias or gouge containing disseminated sulphides and oxides. Open space filling veins can transition along strike into fault-veins and vice versa, and the presence of stockwork is common at the contacts of the vein with the host rock. Thus, it is interpreted that most veins were open or partially open faults and fractures, that they were flooded with hydrothermal fluids, and that some of these were reactivated by later faulting. Replacement deposits, on the other hand, occur as oblique or perpendicular splays to veins and faults, and as larger replacement deposits concordant with sedimentary bedding. Re ........
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The La Parrilla Silver Mine is a complex of producing underground operations consisting of the Rosarios, La Blanca and San Marcos mines which are interconnected through underground workings, and the Vacas and Quebradillas mines which are connected via above-ground gravel roads.
Production in 2016 was from five underground sources and from the Quebradillas open pit. Oxide ores where supplied mainly by the Quebradillas open pit, and Quebradillas and San Marcos underground mines, while sulphide ores were supplied from Rosarios, Intermedia, Vacas and Quebradillas underground mines.
The Vacas mine began production in the second half of 2013 at a rate of 300 tpd. The mine produced sulphide ore with high silver grades ranging from 200 to 240 g/t. The known mineral reserves were exhausted by December 2016.
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