Latitude: 20°32'5"S
Longitude: 68°31'55"W
A sulphur mine approximately 8 km south of the settlement San Pablo de Napa, but it is not one of the San Pablo de Napa sulfur mines.
References
- Ahlfeld, Federico. 1954. Los yacimentos minerales de Bolivia. Banco Minero de Bolivia & Corporacio Minera de Bolivia, La Paz, 277 pp.
- Ponce, José. 1967. Two page letter [enclosures missing] from Ing. José Ponce/Geobol to Ing. Gastón Pereora B., dated March 2 1967. [original in Sergeomin library in La Paz, copy in Hedegaard library]
- Hedegaard, C. (2001): The El Desierto Sulfur Mine, Bolivia, Rocks & Minerals, 76(6), 394-402.
- Hedegaard, C. (2001): Mining sulfur specimens in southern Bolivia, Bulletin of the Mineralogical Society no. 130, 3-6.
- Hedegaard, C. (2001): From the edge of the purgatory to a show near you, Lapidary Journal, 54(11), 32-36.
- Hedegaard, C. (2003): "Specimen mining" in Bolivia- om at samle svovl i det sydlige Bolivia. STEIN 30 (1): 23-28
- Petrov, A. (2003): The El Desierto Sulfur Mine, Potosi, Bolivia. The Mineralogical Record, 34, 297-305.
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