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Enargite from
Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Project
Classification
Species:Enargite
Formula:Cu3AsS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Arhbarite7 photos of Enargite associated with Arhbarite at this locality.
Guanacoite5 photos of Enargite associated with Guanacoite at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Enargite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Conichalcite3 photos of Enargite associated with Conichalcite at this locality.
Erazoite1 photo of Enargite associated with Erazoite at this locality.
Goldfieldite1 photo of Enargite associated with Goldfieldite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Enargite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Bismuthinite1 photo of Enargite associated with Bismuthinite at this locality.
Baryte1 photo of Enargite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enargite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:247866
Long-form Identifier:1:3:247866:1
GUID (UUID V4):b958fc9c-92a8-4ca3-b778-f78c1fdd5c1e
Localities for Enargite in this Region
Abundancia Mine, Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Emma Luisa Mine, Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Nearest other occurrences of Enargite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Abundancia Mine, Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
77.1km (47.9 miles) El Peñón Mine, Escondida, Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile Jochen Schlüter, Thomas Malcherek...found in 2012 in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco ore deposit, Northern Chile. Erazoite occurs as tiny...Key words: erazoite, El Guanaco gold deposit, copper tin sulphide, Taltal, Chile Introduction The new...by Arturo Molina in 2012 in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco ore deposit (25° 06′ 22″ S 69° 32′ 10″...100 km ENE of Taltal, 180 km ESE of Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The El Guanaco gold mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenate mineral species from the El Guanaco Mine, near Taltal, Chile: Description and crystal structure...from the El Guanaco Mine, around 93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region...Region, Northern Chile. The mineral occurs as blue to pale blue prismatic to acicular crystals up to 0.7 mm...olivenite, chrysocolla, brochantite, quartz and enargite. The crystals are brittle, have a vitreous luster...mineral, crystal structure, akrochordite, El Guanaco Mine, Chile, Taghouni, Morocco. Introduction In 1997
Report (issue)
98(7)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: El Guanaco mine, northern Chile. 8.420 (100), 4.210 (64), 4.322 (21)...19 15.80 36.05 16.96 100.00 (1) El Guanaco mine, northern Chile; average electron microprobe analysis...epithermal deposit hosted by felsic rocks (El Guanaco mine), weathered in an arid and Mg-rich environment...olivenite, chrysocolla, brochantite, quartz, enargite (Chile); quartz, dolomite, chalcopyrite, chromite...Distribution: From the El Guanaco mine, ~93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region, northern
Report (issue)
synthetic X-ray Powder Pattern: Chilena mine, Antofagasta Province, Chile. 3.022 (100), 1.877 (47), 1.667 (13)...20.99 34.04 100.00 (1) Chilena mine, Antofagasta Province, Chile; average of 36 electron microprobe...bismuthinite, goldfieldite, enargite, covellite, tennantite. Distribution: From the Chilena mine, Soledad property...property, El Guanaco gold deposit, Atacama desert, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Name: Honors Gabriel Erazo...crystallography, and metallurgy at Copiapo University, Chile, and was the first director of the Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high Mg content from the type locality (El Guanaco mine, Chile) was investigated to elucidate the crystal-chemical...discovered in a mine dump at the El Guanaco mine, 93 km east of Taltal, 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, in northern...northern Chile (Witzke et al. 2006). Kolitsch et al. (2000) introduced the unknown Cu-Mg arsenate mineral...refinement of this material. Guanacoite from the El Guanaco mine occurs as blue to pale blue, prismatic to needle-like...component metals are derived from weathering of enargite Cu3AsS4 and an apparently dolomitic country rock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, A NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE ABUNDANCIA MINE, CHILE Petr ONDRUŠ and Franti šek VESELOVSKÝ Czech...mineral species from the Abundancia mine, El Guanaco mining district, Chile. It is dimorphous with lavendulan...thermal analysis, secondary mineral, Abundancia mine, Chile. § E-mail address: skala@gli.cas.cz 524 ...espèce minérale découverte à la mine Abundancia, district minier de El Guanaco, au Chili. Elle possède une...infra-rouge, analyse thermique, minéral secondaire, mine Abundancia, Chili. Introduction Lemanskiite, ideally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Koashva open pit of the Vostochnyi apatite mine, Khibiny, with aegirine, microcline, lamprophyllite...copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie–...covellite, was discovered at in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco Au deposit (25°06′22″S 69°32′10″W), in...Atacama desert ~100 km ENE of Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The El Guanaco is an epithermal deposit...minerals mostly represented by pyrite, chalcopyrite, enargite, and gold. Erazoite is enclosed in colorless euhedral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOLUTIONS IN THE SYSTEMS Cu-As-S. MINA EL GUANACO, TALTAL, CHILE A. H. Cr,lnr, Department oJGeological,...Cu-As-S solid solutions in the EI Guanaco deposit, northern Chile. The solid solutions are compositionally...compositionally intermediate between enargite and djurleite, and represent diffusion fronts which developed in...and chalcopyrite in copper deposits of northern Chile have confirmed the existenceof extensivesolid solutions...replacement of enargite by supergenedjurleite in the El Guanaco gold-copper deposit, 100 km ENE of Taltal, Chile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 86, 1991, pp. 1187-1205 Gold Metallogeny of Chile RICHARD an Introduction H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill...poorlymineralized. Paucityof golddepositsin the coastalzoneof Chile, concentration of highsulfidationand porphyry-typedepositsin...copper and silver enrichmentin northernand central Chile which took place during the Oligoceneand early Mioceneand...CHILEhasbeena modestgoldproducerfor the last central Chile (24o-37 ø S; Flores, 1942; Ruiz et al., fivecenturies...by-product of coppermining.The 18 principal tral Chile, commonlyat altitudescloseto or greater depositsincludedin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scorodite, and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...at the cobalt mine at Great Hill north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield...Fairfield County; and the arsenic mine between Seymour and Derby on the west bank of the Naugatuck River...Januzzi 1976). It has also been found in the Wheeler mine, Merrimack County, and in the Parker Mountain pegmatite...the old arsenic mine at Warwick, Orange County, and similarly at the arsenopyrite mine at Pine Pond near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AntofagastaRegion,Chile FRANCISCO CAMUS Caminodel Valle Alto 1327, LosDominicos-Las Condes,Santiago,Chile AND MILKA...ALEXANDRA SKEWES Casilla 970, CorreoCentral,Santiago,Chile Abstract The Faride epithermalsilver-golddepositbelongsto...about 70,000 metric grade to justify developinga mine. By the end of tonsof ore hasbeen extracted from...1222 FARIDE Au-Ag DEPOSIT, CHILE 70 ø 69 ø 1223 6 8ø 67 ø 21ø Antofagasta o • 2;)o TOCOPI NUQUICAMA•'...year, decidedto placethe depositin production.The mine is currentlyin the construction and developmentstageand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ottemann (1967) and Einaudi (1968) both occur in enargite-bearing, arsenic-richassemblages, analvSisof p1'rite...intimatelv associated with enargite in the EI Guanacodeposit, Taltal, Chile (Clark, 1969), is non-cuprian...56 p -(1969) Supergeneluzonite, Mina El Guanaco, Taltal, chile. Miner. Deposito (in Press). Erxaurr, M
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universidad de Chile. Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile. (2) Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza...Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. (3) College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University...known, allowing better criteria for decisions on mine concession acquisitions, plan geophysical and geochemical...minor copper mineralized tourmaline breccia pipes, enargite-bearing and Fe oxide-Cu-Au veins, epithermal precious... Quellaveco and Toquepala, whereas in northern Chile, the main deposits are Mocha, Cerro Colorado, Spence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4, 72--74 (1969) Compositional Variations in Enargite and Luzonite G. SPRINGER Institut ffir Mineralogie...were made of enargite and luzonite from various localities. It was shown that enargite can contain as...phases luzonite and famatinite. The compositions of enargite and of luzonite-famatinite solid solution were...structures: the orthorhombic form of CuaAsS 4 is called enargite, tetragonal CuaAsS 4 is luzonite and tetragonal...solution between luzonite and does not exist and that enargite is a high temperature modification of luzonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tambo high-sulfidation epithermal gold deposits in Chile as well as the recently discovered Alturas high-sulfidation...metallogenic belt, which straddles the Argentina-Chile border along the crest of the Cordillera Frontal...E-verging Baños 70 W 66 W o o Antofagasta ARGENTINA 24oS o 300 CHILE 24 S SOUTH AMERICA Escondida...El Indio-Pascua metallogenic belt, spanning the Chile-Argentina border in the Andean Cordillera (modified...and the age-equivalent Pastos Blancos Group in Chile (Bissig et al., 2001), as well as volumetrically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUPERGENE OXIDATION, COPIAPo MINING DISTRICT, NORTHERN CHILE R. H. Snr.rroE, Deportnlentof Geology,LlniuersityCollege...deposits of the Copiap6 mining district of northern Chile copper and copper-iron sulfides persist as early...deposits in the Copiap6 mining district of northern Chile (Sillitoe, 1969a), in which the relations between...InvestigacionesGeol6gicas, Casilla 10465,Santiago,Chile. 1684 COPPERSULFIDES 1685 which has been adequatel-vdefined...most extensive major planation surface in northern Chile, the Atacama Pediplain, which developedin responseto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
High-Sulfidation Epithermal Pascua Au-Ag-Cu Deposit, Chile and Argentina ANNICK CHOUINARD,† Department of Geological...Nevada S.A./Barrick Chile Ltda., Barrio Industrial, Alto Peñuelas, Sitio 58, Coquimbo, Chile Abstract The...is located in the El Indio belt of north-central Chile and Argentina and was the product of a high-sulfidation...involved precipitation of native gold with pyrite and enargite and incorporation of Au in the structure of these...the following minerals: (1) alunite, pyrite, and enargite; (2) pyrite; (3) pyrite and szomolnokite; and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper-typedepositlocatedin northwesternArgentina in the province of Catamarca. It was investigatedby Cities Service...very unusualassemblage: pyr[te-covellite-bornite-enargite-molybdenite-sphalerite-galena-marcasit. e-rhodochrosite-native... There are someindication.s central Catamarca province to the Mi Vida-Filo suggestinga ,relationbetweenthat...molybdenite, mgt= magnetite, cv = covellite, en = enargite, sph= sphalerite, gn = galena, rho= rhodochrosite...outcrops such as that a.t Cueva Carudo and Filo Guanaco, and of somestratificationfeaturesat QuebradaAgua
Journal (issue)
small movement of stones from Pech. The entire province of Kunar did not have a single death so far in...they closed down the new emerald mines in Laghman Province. as they were close to the front lines of the...Northern Alliance. They also took control of the ruby mine over the past year, and tried to lease it. They...gemmy lustrous yellow kunzite Crom Waigon. Laghman Province. Then I started to see all of the latest production...Laghman Province. Next, a friend arrived whose father had just returned from the new demantoid mine, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Canada b Barrick Chile Ltda. , Barrio Industrial Late 58, Alto Penuelas, Coquimbo, Chile Published online:...HEATHER Barrick Chile Ltda., Barrio Industrial Late 58, Alto Peñuelas, Coquimbo, Chile Abstract Ninety-three...from carefully documented outcrops or underground mine exposures on the Chilean and Argentinian flanks...29° and 30°30' S, north and south of the El Indio mine. Additional ore bodies, all of epithermal type,...information is largely from Martin et al. (1995) for Chile; no comprehensive regional map at an appropriate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ternary phasesin the systeln Cu-As-S are luzonite, enargite, tennantite,lautite (CuAsS), sinnerite(Cu0As4S9)and...the (1960) reportedsyntheses of the polymorphs enargite diameterof the capsules used,six or more charges...severaldaysor --+-1.0 ø C for over the assemblage enargite+ tennantite+ digenite, longerperiodsup to six...Laboratoriesinstrument and samplesoi( syntheticchalcocite,enargite,tennantiteand lautite Cu/ o!0 •.k, •,As of knowncompositions...stabilities,identitiesandcompositions. 1. Enargite: Enargite is orthorhombic, a = 6.46 A, b = 7.43A.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located in the Frontal Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, near the present-day northern limit...alteration, accompanied by minor high-sulfidation enargite mineralization, locally affected the southern...Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, ~8 km east of the border with Chile (lat 28°26'S, long 69°32'W)...70° 68°W 69°40’ o PERU S BOLIVIA er u - Chile Tambo Alturas ch Los Azules El Altar - Piuquenes...fau Los H e l a d os M og ote sf au lt Refugio CHILE belt A R G E N T I N A Lobo-Marte La Pepa Taguas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Processes in the El Indio-Pascua Au-Ag-Cu Belt, Chile and Argentina THOMAS BISSIG,* ALAN H. CLARK,† JAMES...erosion surfaces of the Atacama desert of northern Chile and southern Peru, are considered to have formed...on supergene processes in the Andes of northern Chile and southern Peru has long been recognized (e.g...Indio-Pascua gold-silver-copper belt which straddles the Chile-Argentina frontier along the tectonic and physiographic...geochronologic 971 972 BISSIG ET AL. Chile Antofagasta PE R U -C Puna Tucumán La Coipa Maricunga
Book
Radomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile. Patricio Cuadra and Francisco Cam us.............Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit,Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel Durdn andAquiles Gonzales...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously...all within the US "South­ west" and in northern Chile and neighbouring southern Peru. With the exception
Book
org/details/geologyofchile0000unse The Geology of Chile • The Geologica l Society of London Books Editorial...T. & GIBBO, s, W . (eds) 2007 . The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society, London. CHARRIER, R., PINTO...the Andean Orogeo in Chile. Jn: MORENO, T. & GrnsoNs, W. (eds) The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society...Society, London, 21-114. The Geology of Chile EDITED BY TERESA MORENO Earth Sciences Institute 'J aume...\ii . Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno
 
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