The world's richest currently active tin(-copper) mine. Reserves 14 million tons ore at 5% Sn.
Lode-type Sn-Cu deposit, centered on a shallow-level, Late Oligocene granitoid stock, which was emplaced into early Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks.
References
- Mlynarczyk, Michael S. J., Sherlock, Ross L. & Williams-Jones, Anthony E. (2003): San Rafael, Peru: geology and structure of the worlds richest tin lode. Mineralium Deposita 38, 555-567.
- Thomas Wagner, Michael S. J. Mlynarczyk, Anthony E. Williams-Jones, and Adrian J. Boyce (2009): Stable Isotope Constraints on Ore Formation at the San Rafael Tin-Copper Deposit, Southeast Peru. Economic Geology 104, 223-248.
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