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El Quemado District, Nevados de Palermo, Salta, Argentina

Districto de El Quemado, Nevados de Palermo, Salta, Argentina

Complex granitic pegmatites as tabular bodies up to several hundred meters long and 30m thick. Hosted in schists of the La Playa Formation, related to a trondheimite intrusion.

Ref: Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina 38(3-4), 340-380.

Marquez-Zavalía, M.F., Galliski, M.A., Černý, P., Chapman, R. (2010): A bismuth-rich, tellurium-bearing mineral assemblage from El Quemado granitic pegmatite, Nevados de Palermo, Salta, Argentina. Canadian Mineralogist, 48, (in press).

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Albite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Alluaudite
'Apatite'
Arrojadite-(KFe)
Autunite
Bederite (TL)
Beryl
Biotite
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bismutotantalite
Brazilianite
Cassiterite
Chalcopyrite
Columbite
Columbite-(Mn)
Covellite
Elbaite
Emplectite
Eosphorite
Fairfieldite
Fluorite
Gahnite
'Garnet'
Heterosite
Ilmenite
Ixiolite
Laueite
Lepidolite
Leucophosphite
Limonite
Lithiophilite
Magnetite
'Manganomelane'
Microcline
Microlite Group
var: Bismutomicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)
var: Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)
Mitridatite
Molybdenite
Montebrasite
Muscovite
Phosphosiderite
Quartz
Rockbridgeite
Rutile
Schorl
Sphalerite
Spodumene
Tantalite
Tantalite-(Mn)
'Tapiolite'
Tapiolite-(Fe)
Tennantite
var: Annivite

Tetrahedrite
var: Bismuthian Tetrahedrite

Torbernite
Triphylite
Triplite
Uraninite
'Wad'
Zircon


82 entries listed. 49 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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