San Francisco mine, Alto Chapare District, Chapare Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia

The San Francisco mine worked magnesioriebeckitic asbestos during the 1940s.

NB: Often given in the literature as the type locality for povondraite (formerly called "ferridravite"), but that species and its associated minerals came from the Locotal Breccia, a different rock unit a few hundred metres outside the mine.

Mineral List:

	'K Feldspar'

	Magnesioriebeckite

	Magnesite

	Muscovite ?

	~~Povondraite~~

	Quartz

	~~Riebeckite~~

	Schorl

8 entries listed. 5 valid minerals. 2 erroneous literature entries.

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