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Apatite from
Chorolque Mine, Cerro Chorolque, Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chorolque Mine, Cerro Chorolque, Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:42324
Long-form Identifier:1:3:42324:7
GUID (UUID V4):79c5eb80-d5e7-4634-ab63-25d60e0ead9e
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
26.7km (16.6 miles) Chocaya mine, Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
27.1km (16.9 miles) Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
27.5km (17.1 miles) Ánimas Mine, Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
38.2km (23.7 miles) Tazna Mine (Tasna Mine; Tazna-Rosario Mine), Tasna Rosario, Cerro Tazna, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...Ph08pl,ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Miocene tin porphyry systems of Llallagua, Chorolque, and Cerro Rico have a moderately fractionated rhyodacite...THE TIN porphyry deposits of Llallagua, Chorolque, and Cerro Rico form part of the central Andean tin...tin belt in the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia (Fig. 1). The tin belt extends from southern Peru to northern...Argentina and is the easternmost metallogenic province of the central Andes (Ahlfeld, 1967; Turneaure...Rice, 1997), which makes Llallagua the largest tin mine of the western world. The bulk geochemical tin enrichment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystal-forms on Vivianite. Tetrahedrite fl'om Pulacayo mine, Huanchaca. Regular grouping of Stannite and Tetrahedrite...and Tourmaline-Hornfels fl'om Tasna. Fluorite. Apatite. Cupriferous Miargyrite from Tatasi. Miargyrite...Dept. Potosi. Chalybite from Chorolque and Tatasi. Enargite from Chorolque. the last twelve years I have...friend Mr. Malcolm Roberts, A.R.S.M., a mine manager in Bolivia. Another collection , which may be specially...specially mentioned, was brought from Bolivia by Sir Martin Conway, and presented by him in 1899 to the
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
states. Examples include the Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous...famous Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada; with freibergite and andorite at the Bear Basin mines...sphalerite at the Young American mine, Stevens County, Washington; the Old Dowdy mine, Gunnison County, Colorado...löllingite, smaltite, and various sulfides; the Merrimac mine, Doña Ana County, Figure 1. A 2.5-cm-high stannite...arsenopyrite. This 13-cm specimen is from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universitesi] at 20:13 05 January 2015 Pseudomorphs from Bolivia JAROSLAV HYRSL Heverova 222 CZ-28000 Kolin Czech...Republic ALFRED PETROV casilla1728 Cochabamba Bolivia Figure 1. Map showing deposits discussed in the...the more unusual members of the mineral kingdom. Bolivia is a country well known to collectors as the only...tungsten mines in the altiplano and eastern Andes of Bolivia. Pseudomorphs of native copper, cuprite, chalcocite...Cochabamba, Bolivia. Both authors are also part-time dealers specializing in minerals from Bolivia. 410 ROCKS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Earth. In 2017, the Central Andes accounted for the mine production of around 39% of the world’s copper,...easternmost extend from central Chile/Argentina to Bolivia and to northern Peru and beyond. Table 1 summarizes...cm. Figure 2 A–B vein Panoramic view of the Cerro de Pasco (Peru) Miocene Cordilleran polymetallic...assemblage in the Cordilleran polymetallic deposit of Cerro de Pasco (Peru). Photo width: 8 cm. Figure 5 enr...Haller and Fontboté 2009). Important iron oxide–apatite (IOA) deposits that consist mainly of magnetite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
345 Cassiterite pseudomorphs from Bolivia 1 By RICHARD PEARCE, Ph.D., F.G.S. [Read June 22, 1906.~ N...thickness. Their surfaces have a drusy mineral from Bolivia. aspect, due to the crystalline development of...of oxide of tin after some unknown mineral from Bolivia,' by R. Pearce : Trans. R. Geol. Soc. Cornwall...the original mineral was apatite. On p. 134 he mentions tin-ore from Chorolque with impressions of an octahedral...vol. xii, p. 404) also records the presence at Chorolque of sponge-like lumps of almost pure eassiterite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
345 Cassiterite pseudomorphs from Bolivia 1 By RICHARD PEARCE, Ph.D., F.G.S. [Read June 22, 1906.~ N...thickness. Their surfaces have a drusy mineral from Bolivia. aspect, due to the crystalline development of...of oxide of tin after some unknown mineral from Bolivia,' by R. Pearce : Trans. R. Geol. Soc. Cornwall...the original mineral was apatite. On p. 134 he mentions tin-ore from Chorolque with impressions of an octahedral...vol. xii, p. 404) also records the presence at Chorolque of sponge-like lumps of almost pure eassiterite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversidadMayor de SanAndrds,Casilla11152, La Paz, Bolivia MICHAEL TISTL, MisiSnGeolSgicaAlemana,c/o INGEOMINAS...alAndes(northern Chile,northwestern Argentina,Bolivia)implya regionallyvariablebulktin distribution coefficient...Major Sn deposits ,Cordillera Real/ __ --]4)ø Cerro Verde .•T 10 4 5 O .'::. '•',• Chacaltaya ...•CHILE '•["""" ' ' •-• ElAbra • Choro.que *) SW Bolivia $.. ..... :•.*........: --.-.,, •....... •*...porphyrieswhichoccurmainlyin centralandsouthern Bolivia(Everndenet al., 1977; Grantet al., 1979; blagesona
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BOLIVIA by Keith R. Long1 , Jane S. Ciener2 , Fernando...U.S. Embassy, La Paz, Bolivia. 4 Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia INTRODUCTION This bibliography...references useful for a mineral resource assessment of Bolivia. In its present form it is a nearly exhaustive...resources, economic geology and areal geology of Bolivia. References pertaining to mineralogy, geochemistry...(Federico), 1950, Nuevas publicaciones geologicas sobre Bolivia: Mineria Boliviana, v. 7, n. 53, p. 7-8. Earth
Book
at a level of 150,000-250,000 t Sn/year, with a mine output in 1989 of 210,000 t Sn (MCS 1990). This...areas with which the author is most familiar with (Bolivia, SE Asia, Europe). This inductive approach condenses...Northern Bolivia .......................................................... Chorolque, Southern Bolivia .....Launay (1913) introduced the term "metallogenic province". The observational background for this situation..."metaltogenic provinces" is derived from the fact that the province-specific metals are sometimes repeatedly concentrated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reconnaissance study of the Huanuni tin deposit (Bolivia), using LA-ICP-MS micro-analysis Received: 17 April...quartz-cassiterite veins of the Huanuni tin deposit, Bolivia. Fluid inclusion assemblages were found in quartz...Gallegos Universidad TeÂcnica de Oruro, Oruro, Bolivia Present address: B. MuÈller Division of Applied...the ¯uid inclusion chemistry of the Huanuni tin mine. In addition to conventional homogenisation temperature...The Bolivian tin province The Bolivian tin belt is a well-de®ned metallogenetic province extending from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
veinsbecamein depth tin veins2 Thus the Dolcoath mine, the most importantof the region,had in its upperlevelscopperores...Pneumatolytic mineralsas fluorspar,tourmaline,and apatite are presentin the gangue; and the country rock...mineralsin only two districts in the world. Bolivia These are the Cerro de Potosi district in and the Mr. Zeehan...Stelznerbecameespecially interested in the rich silver veins of Bolivia which also carried a large amountof tin. Though...specimens sentto him by his correspondents in Bolivia. In t892 he made a preliminary statementbefore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been found only in that district of the Lagos Province. These beds are extensively impregnated with bitumen...comprises some 1,800 square miles of the Eastern Province of Southern Nigeria, adjacent to the Kameruns...Crystalline Rocks of the Kukuruku Hills (Central Province of Southern Nigeria)." By John Parkinson, B.A...of the crystalline rocks found in the Central Province of Southern Nigeria, between the Station of Ifon...is compared with the Oban Hills of the Eastern Province. II.—January 9th, 1907. — Sir Archibald Geikie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tin-Silver No. 2 Province F. S. TURNEAURE Abstract The tin-silver provinceof Bolivia includesthe Cordillera...mineralization betweenthe tin-silverprovinceof Bolivia, the copperprovinceof Chile and the belt of polymetallicores...The tin-silver provinceof the Eastern Andes of Bolivia has only a generalconnotation,as the belt Geology...determinations of interbeddedvol- THE BOLIVIAN TIN-SILVER PROVINCE • .•, 660 (j•.L__ok_ .e• ,. 'Tiffcoco.•:'L•...Turneaure, 1960). In this district andesitcflows are mine in Argentina,a distanceof 900 km; it reaches overlain
Journal (issue)
N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29 Billiton 34 Bolivia 36 Burmah 45 California 48 Canada Cape Colony...continued search to find what had been written upon Bolivia and the lesser known localities. No monographic...Immigration Commission, to the Finance Minister of the Province, No. 119, Buenos Aires. Rep. Seer. Mines...the small granulite near crystals In La Rioja Province, close to Tinogasta (Catamarca), at the village...and CASTRO, MARIANO SALAS. Rep. Seer, of the Province. No. 119. [no date], pp. 1-16, Mining Immigration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with bright, metallic lustre, from the Griffith mine, near Georgetown, was freed as far as possible from...from Uncia (prov. Chayanta), Oruro, and Chorolque, in Bolivia. The habit varies considerably ; sometimes...vivianite, it could have been derived from the apatite in the pegmatite, or have been deposited by infiltering...are plates of damourite, bands of pyrites, also apatite, zircon, kyanite, ilmenite, and the three new minerals...Geol., 1894, 409-414).-Wolframite occurs with apatite, copper pyrites, molybdenite, fluorite, scheelite
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: Llallagua, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...perhaps the finest known, 2 cm, from Llallagua, Bolivia. Mark Chance Bandy collection; current owner unknown...practical experience at the Gottesehre (“God’s Honor”) mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near...E-Mail: stuwil@aol.com Rhodochrosite, Uchucchaqua mine, Lima Dept. Peru 2 inches. Wilensky photo. Clara...SMALE Famous Mineral Localities: Llallagua, Bolivia Jaroslav Hyrsl Ke kurtum 383 142 00 Prague, Czech
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
central Andean tin belt is a classic metallogenic province for Sn-W deposits in which widespread tourmaline...Sn-dominated deposits, such as those of the Cornwall province in southwest England (e.g., Drivenes et al., 2015;...central Andean tin belt (Fig. 1A). This metallogenic province extends ~1,000 km to the southeast as a 30- to...to 130-km-wide belt from southern Peru through Bolivia to northern Argentina and hosts hundreds of Sn-W...deposits such as San Rafael, Llallagua, Cerro Rico de Potosi, and Chorolque (e.g., Kelly and Turneaure, 1970;
Report (volume)
biotite or biotite-muscovite granite or, as in Bolivia, with shal-low-seated volcanic rocks such as quartz...major lode tin deposits of the world (those of Bolivia excepted) are o:f this type.2 Lodes are near or...Alaska 2. Manley Hot Springs, Alaska 3. Sullivan mine, British Columbia, Canada 4. New Brunswick area...Tex. 8. Black Range district, New Mexico 9. Climax mine, Colorado 10. Gorman area, California SOUTH AMERICA...Gerais, Brazil Rondonia-Tapajos, Brazil Tin belt, Bolivia lpameri, Goias, Brazil Encruzilhalda, Brazil Amapa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
incluir per un lade yaeimientos que parecen abundar en Sud Am6rica y per otro lade tipos de dep6sitos que pareeen...entre 6stas franjas son similares entre Norte y Sud Am6rica. Esto indica que dependen de la distribuei6n...n mayor desarrollo de los recursos minerales de Sud Am6rica. Probablemente varios paises podrian aumentar...crat6nicos hasta geosinelinales y orog6nicos), en Sud Am6rica los paises estan distribuidos principalmente...broad sense that the expression "metallogenic province" is used in this paper. When all deposits of various
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aggregates of tourmaline. The accessory minerals are apatite, zircon, sphene, and rutile. The two generations...encloses slender prismatic apatite crystals. In one tourmalinite pebble several apatite crystals are more than...explains the occurrence of porphyry tin deposits in Bolivia has been proposed by Sillitoe et al. (1975). This...volcanic deposits located in the core of the Chorolque centre (Bolivia) is comparable with that observed in the
Book
.................. .42 3.1.6 Pirquitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina ..................................... 58 3.2.7 Maranda J, Murchison belt, Northern Province, South Africa ........... 59 VIII Table of...Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............................ 89 3.4.13 Bolivar, Cerro Bonete Area, Cordillera...Occidental, Bolivia ............ 89 3.4.14 Huari-Huari, Potosi, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............Occidental, Bolivia ......... 91 3.4.16 San Vicente, Uyuni, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ...........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southern extension of the Altiplano of southern Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile, is a high plateau whose base...Cenozoic volcanism in the Argentine Puna and southern Bolivia Altiplano plateau, in the Western Cordillera, and...505 Granadas Platform ° c Basaltic-andesite Cerro Morado IvXJX"'.''.'". C Bayo Dacite 7.5 X'XB-X-X;...distal pyroclastic deposits derived from centers in Bolivia and northern Chile. In the Puna, the beginning...volcanic line. The exception is the Late Pliocene Cerro Galan ignimbrite (Fig. 1), which erupted in the
 
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