Merceditas mine (El Volcán Mine), Cordillera Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

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(Mina Merceditas (Mina El Volcán), Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile)

Merceditas is a small group of Co-Cu mines now fairly exhausted: mineralization hosted in lutites, shales and andesite rocks.

Ref:

C. Ruiz Fuller/F. Peebles (1988): "Yacimientos metalíferos de Chile": Fondecyt, Stgo de Chile.

Mineral List:

Arsenopyrite
var: Danaite
Asbolane
Bornite
Chalcopyrite
Cobaltite

Erythrite
Limonite
Löllingite
Magnetite
Pyrite

Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite
'Tourmaline'

15 entries listed. 12 valid minerals.

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