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Carolina, Coronel Pringles Department, San Luis, Argentina

A mountain miner parish whose surroundings are well known for several minerals. Deformed Cambrian-Ordovician gneiss, metaquartzite, granites, pegmatites and amphibolites. Mylonitic zone trending NNE controls intrusion of Tertiary calc-alkaline volcanics (trachyandesite). Lenses of hydrothermal breccia occupy semicicular arcs associated with domes and explosion breccias. Different alteration types include: argillization, sericitization+pyritization, silicification, propylization (chlorite+carbonate+hematite, +/- epidote, +/- pyrite).

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Almandine
Biotite
'Chlorite Group'
Epidote
Galena
Gold
Graphite
Hematite
Kyanite
Magnetite
Muscovite
Pyrite
var: Auriferous Pyrite
Quartz
var: Rose Quartz
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Scheelite
Schorl


20 entries listed. 13 valid minerals.

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