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Chili Palca Hacienda, Puno Department, Peru

Ref.: Eur. Jour. Mineral. , 1994, 6, pp. 145-150.

Lamprophyric dykes closely associated with peraluminous granite intruded in the Eastern Cordillera of Southern Peru during Oligocene.
Located 1.5 km NE of Chili Palca Hacienda (70° 30' 48" W, 14° 17' 43" S).
The Chili Palca transitional lamproite is the product of mixing between olivine lamproite and peraluminous granite melts.





Mineral List:
Albite
var: Oligoclase

Anorthite
var: Labradorite

Anorthoclase
'Apatite'
Biotite
Chromite
Enstatite
Forsterite
Graphite
Hercynite
Hypersthene
Ilmenite
Orthoclase
'Orthopyroxene Subgroup'
Osumilite-(Mg)
Phlogopite
Quartz
Spinel


18 entries listed. 11 valid minerals.

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