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El Quemado District, 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.

M.F. Marquez-Zavalia. M.A. Galliski, P. Cerny, and R. Chapman: "A bismuth-rich, tellurium-bearing mineral assemblage from El Quemado granitic pegmatite, Nevados de Palermo, Salta, Argentina." Canadian Mineralogist (accepted).




Mineral list contains contents from all localities listed at bottom of page


Mineral List:
  		•  Albite
  		• 'Albite-Anorthite Series'
  		• Alluaudite
  		• 'Apatite'
  		• Arrojadite-(KFe)
  		• Autunite
  		• Bederite (TL)
  		• Beryl
  		• Biotite
  		• Bismuth
  		• Bismuthinite
  		• Bismutite
  		• Bismutomicrolite
  		• Bismutotantalite
  		• Brazilianite
  		• Cassiterite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• 'Columbite'
  		• Columbite-(Mn)
  		• Covellite
  		• Elbaite
  		• Emplectite
  		• Eosphorite
  		• Fairfieldite
  		• Fluorite
  		• Gahnite
  		• 'Garnet Group'
  		• Heterosite
  		• Ilmenite
  		• Ixiolite
  		• Laueite
  		• Lepidolite
  		• Leucophosphite
  		• Limonite
  		• Lithiophilite
  		• Magnetite
  		• Microcline
  		• Microlite
  		• Mitridatite
  		• Molybdenite
  		• Montebrasite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Phosphosiderite
  		• Quartz
  		• Rockbridgeite
  		• Rutile
  		• Schorl
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Spodumene
  		• Tantalite
  		• Tantalite-(Mn)
  		• 'Tapiolite'
  		• Tapiolite-(Fe)
  		• Tetrahedrite
    var: Bismuthian Tetrahedrite
  		• Torbernite
  		• Triphylite
  		• Triplite
  		• Uraninite
  		• Uranmicrolite
  		• 'Wad'
  		• Zircon


    61 entries listed. 50 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

    Localities in this Region:
    Argentina
     
    • Salta
      • Nevados de Palermo
        • El Quemado District
    Argentina
     
    • Salta
      • Nevados de Palermo
        • El Quemado District

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