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My team is evaluating the San Luis del Cordero project in central Durango State, Mexico. This is a quartz-feldspar porphyry intrusive, which is in contact with calcarious shales and limestone units. There are both skarn zones and epithermal veins associated with the intrusive. I welcome any suggested references for this type of mineralization.

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