Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Volumen 68, núm. 2, 2016, p. 357-364 http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2016v68n2a12

 Short Note

Geochronology of Mexican mineral deposits. IV: the Cinco Minas epithermal deposit, Jalisco

Antoni Camprubí^1,*, Alexander Iriondo², Margarita López-Martínez³, Aldo Ramos-Rosique⁴

¹ Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Coyoacán, CDMX, México.
²Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Boulevard Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
³ Centro de Investigación Científica y Educación Superior de Ensenada. Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana No. 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico.
⁴ Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Coyoacán, CDMX, Mexico.
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Abstract

Two ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages at 24.50 ± 0.07 and 23.46 ± 0.26 Ma (latest Oligocene) were obtained in this paper for adularia separates from vein material of the Cinco Minas low sulfidation epithermal deposit in Jalisco, southwestern Mexico. Such ages confirm the migration of metallogenic activity along with volcanism as the Sierra Madre Occidental migrated southwards since the latest Oligocene and into the Miocene. These deposits are synchronous to andesitic volcanism nearby. In addition, these ages indicate the occurrence of epithermal mineralization prior to the climactic event of ignimbrite flare-up in the Miocene. This makes necessary to refine previous ideas in the metallogeny of southwestern Mexico, which suggested a scenario in which the formation of epithermal and other types of hydrothermal deposits in the region were produced almost exclusively as a result of the early Miocene peak episode of volcanism.

Keywords: Cinco Minas, Mexico, epithermal deposits, low sulfidation, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages, adularia.

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