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Alunite from
San José Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San José Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:42833
Long-form Identifier:1:3:42833:0
GUID (UUID V4):b6e8283e-2b6d-4282-b436-eb02e0e2b66d
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
32.9km (20.5 miles) Japo Mine (Negro Pabellón Mine), Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
38.6km (24.0 miles) Kori Kollu mine (Inti Raymi mine; Kori Kollo mine), Cerro Chuquina, La Joya mining district, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
41.0km (25.5 miles) Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
41.1km (25.5 miles) San Andrés mine, Cerro Llallagua, La Joya mining district, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
47.4km (29.4 miles) Huanuni mine, Huanuni, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
58.7km (36.5 miles) Ichocollo Mine (Monserrat Mine), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
63.3km (39.3 miles) Colquiri mine, Colquiri, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
65.1km (40.5 miles) Avicaya Mines (Totoral Mines), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
76.2km (47.3 miles) Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ages of Tin-Polymetallic Mineralization in the Oruro Mining District, Central Bolivian Tin Belt Asahiko...vein-type tin-polymetallic ore deposits of the Oruro mining district in the central part of the Bolivian...ages of hypogene mineralization, and supergene alunite and jarosite provide ages for erosional and weathering...the Oruro mining district took place during the early to middle Miocene: 15.8±0.8 Ma at San José, 20...6±1.0 Ma at Llallagua. Fine grained supergene alunite (δ34S = –10.1 ‰) and jarosite yield K-Ar ages of
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)
andesitic tuffs and genesis of halloysite and alunite deposits in the Biga Peninsula, Turkey— Ö.I. Ece...2008 Metalliferous paragenesis of the San José mine, Oruro, Bolivia— F. Keutsch and M.K. de Brodtkorb Genetic...An example from the Fox kimberlite, Ekati Diamond Mine, NWT, Canada—L.A. Porritt, R.A.F. Cas, and B.B.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2018 Abstract Radiometric ages for supergene alunite and jarosite effectively date the oxidation of...mineralization formed, and Pleistocene, K-Ar ages for alunite and jarosite from two widely separated and unusually...the supergene profile, along with any contained alunite and jarosite. Note the difference in arbitrary...formation of the isostructural sulfate minerals, alunite [KAl 3 (SO 4 ) 2 (OH) 6 ] and jarosite [KFe3(SO4)...and Harrison 1999; Vasconcelos 1999). Because alunite and jarosite are stable only under acidic conditions
Journal (issue)
Jordi Coca, Frederic Varela, Catalina Restrepo, José Ramon Pastor (AMPSVR), Manuel Canseco (SVM) Revista...de la Lloma Badá i La Salina de Petrer, Alacant José R. Pastor Aliaga (El Moralet, Alacant).- Una vegada...material abundante y de calidad, desde Valentinitas de Oruro, clásicos de Rumanía, la paragénesis de Madan, Kutnohoritas... Como siempre con muestras excelentes. Lithos - José sigue en la brecha con ánimo, aunque esta vez en...considerables Valentinitas con matriz de Mina San José en Oruro (Bolivia) y buenas Carrolitas de Mina Kamoya en
Book (edition)
HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oligocene Andahuaylas-Yauri Belt, Cuzco Region, Peru JOSÉ PERELLÓ,† Antofagasta Minerals S.A. Ahumada 11,... Departamento de Geología, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cuzco. Avenida de la Cultura, Cuzco...S.A. Avenida Paseo de la República 3245, Piso 3, San Isidro, Lima 27, Perú NICOLÁS FUSTER, AND RICARDO...rapidly emerging as an important porphyry copper province. Field work by the authors confirms that mineralization...include the red beds of the Eocene to early Oligocene San Jerónimo Group and the postmineralization late Oligocene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
min11121402 Academic Editors: Daniel Albero Santacreu, José Cristóbal Carvajal López and Adrián Durán Benito...y Museo (IIAM), Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000, Chile; vfigueroa@ucn.cl...Fe Oxides/Hydroxides Gypsum/Anhydrite/Bassanite Alunite Quartz Feldspars (Orthoclase, Plagioclase) Kaolinite...56], located very close to the active Chuquicamata mine, one of the largest copper mines in the world. The...Chu-2 site also contains alunite (11.72% feldspars, 43.14% quartz and 20.43% alunite). Therefore, although
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
both high and low sulfidation typologies (e.g. San José, Rodalquilar, Carboneras, Mazarrón; Arribas and...precious- and base-metal deposits such as the San José, Rodalquilar, Carboneras, Mazarrón and Cartagena...ore-bearing samples from residual stockpiles and mine waste dumps, 12 samples are from mineralization...veins, especially common in the main ore stage. Alunite, partially replaced by jarosite, appears on shallow...or disseminated in altered rocks. In all cases, alunite appears in white powdery masses, formed by aggregates
Report (issue)
Mountains-Green River, Utah ...coccccecccccesece 334 N. San Rafael—Cedar Mountain, Utah .ccccccccccecccscscvce...wie)orelerese)sieherereitis eiekaisteierese/ctere 460 San fonds Lake we dpnvelascts cua.orate erecta earenete...between galena sphalerite, Darwin Lead-Silver-Zinc mine, Inyo County, California, Econ. Geol., v. 66, p..., Bingham 1971, mining U. xiii S. study mine, of the '"'B" limestone Bingham mining The age... 1971, p. 215-225 The Bolivian tin-silver province: Econ. Geol., v. 66, ABSTRACT These bibliographies
Book
de México. These works were actually authored by José Guadalupe Aguilera, but because of Dr. L. Salazar...produced specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...Mexicali Show & Nensengdo Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Mod ors ified from Berstein, 1964...University of New York, Albany) Provinces / 5 The province of Sonora, located in the northwest corner of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lat 27º26' S and long 66º16' W), in Catamarca Province. It is located 25 km north of the town of Andalgalá...is the extension of the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia into northwestern Argentina. The Sierras Pampeanas...ui nq ▲ ▲ ▲ co ▲ A ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ San Fernando Cerro Nevado del Candado a Cerro Atajo... Bajo de San Lucas Agua Rica 27° 30' Huasi Cóndor Bajo las Juntas La Puerta de San José Pozo de Piedra...Cu-Au-(Mo) porphyries, the Bajo de la Alumbrera mine (Guilbert, 1995; Wall, 1997; Ulrich et al., 1999
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coipa Maricunga Belt Refugio Santiago illera San Juan 125 Mendoza El Teniente Southern Volcanic...setting of the major epithermal centers of this province isolates one major component of the mineralization...ignimbrites and air-fall tuffs exposed south of the Tambo mine and in the Valle del Cura (Fig. 2) have been dated...Looking east from a point ca 5 km west of the El Indio mine (width of skyline ca 10 km). Hills and ridges in...district in the north to the latitude of the Tambo mine, and in the Cordillera Ortíga in the northeastern
Book (edition)
Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford – Paris San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo Elsevier...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Miocene 40Ar/39Ar ages between 11 and 10 Ma on alunite from the Filo Federico zone at Veladero and from...zone in the Cordillera Frontal morphostructural province of the Central Andes, which straddles the Argentina-Chile...Area of Figure 2 Atlantic Ocean Chilean Flat-Slab San Juan Los Pelambres-Pachón (09-10) 32° 75 Antartic...NAZCA PLATE Chile Pacific Ocean 20°S 68°W Bolivia 66° Chile 300 72° 24°S 70° PERU- CH Pacific...study except that undertaken during exploration and mine planning. Thus, the understanding of the deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Indio-Pascua Belt, Argentina: Geochronology of Alunite and Jarosite Elizabeth A. Holley,1,† Thomas Bissig...metallogenic belt in Argentina. New 40Ar-39Ar alunite and jarosite ages were obtained at four mineralized...recorded by alunite from Argenta that formed at 13.12 ± 0.18 Ma. At the Fabiana prospect, alunite is dated...indicate that alunite at Amable formed at 11.93 ± 0.09 Ma, whereas Filo Federico alunite samples are younger...significantly younger with reported 40Ar-39Ar alunite alteration ages of other major deposits in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the low sulfidation epithermal metallogenetical province of the Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina, represents...the low sulfidation epithermal metallogenetical province of the Deseado Massif (Fig. 1), Pingüino represents...deposits from Japan (Toyoha, IkunoAkenobe, etc.) and Bolivia (Bolivar, Huari-Huari etc.). This style of mineralization...1) is located in the centre of the Santa Cruz Province and belongs to the southern part of the Extra-Andean...Patagonia, giving rise to the Chon Aike Large Igneous Province (Pankhurst et al. 1998; Pankhurst et al. 2000)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
10.1007/s00126-015-0633-9 ARTICLE The Marianas-San Marcos vein system: characteristics of a shallow...district, within the Argentinian Deseado Massif province, has become one of the most significant recent...temperatures. A striking aspect of the Marianas-San Marcos vein system is that the high-grade/high-temperature...telescoped model is therefore proposed for the Marianas-San Marcos area, where deeper veins were uplifted and...northwestern margin of the Deseado Massif geological province, Patagonia, Argentina (Fig. 1). The area has been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
significant amounts of the following minerals: (1) alunite, pyrite, and enargite; (2) pyrite; (3) pyrite and...Pebble dikes and breccias containing a matrix of alunite and jarosite postdate mineralization. The premineralization...consists of rock flour with lesser and later quartz, alunite, pyrite, enargite, and barite. The breccia is cut...consists of early barite (bright crystals; Ba), alunite, pyrite, and enargite. D. Photograph of late, angular...body and is now composed of altered rock flour, alunite, pyrite, enargite, native sulfur, clays and soluble
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Vía Blanca s/n, San Miguel del Padrón, La Habana, Cuba MIREYA PÉREZ...Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Vía Blanca s/n, San Miguel del Padrón, La Habana, Cuba Abstract Epithermal...closure temperatures for sericite, illite, and alunite at about 80 Ma, which is older than the age of...edu *Present address: Apto. 710, 2070 Sabanilla, San José, Costa Rica. 0361-0128/01/3438/869-18 $6.00 convergent...Ophiolite Complex Bahamas Platform Loma Carolina (29B) San Nicolas (30B) 50 km Camagüey Batholith Ciego CIEGO
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Martha mine epithermal deposit (Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina). The mine was active from...highest-grade portions of the ore-shoots found at the mine. Finally, a post-mineral supergene phase defined...extension, the secondary enrichment level at Martha mine constitutes an important economic factor for the...shallower portion of the vein system. The Martha mine vein system constitutes an excellent example of...al., 2005) through a detailed study of the Martha mine epithermal deposit, located in the southwestern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 100, pp. 131–148 Alunite in the Pascua-Lama High-Sulfidation Deposit: Constraints...mineralization are recognized, including all types of alunite-bearing advanced argillic assemblages (magmatic-hydrothermal...magmatic steam, and supergene). The occurrence of alunite throughout the paragenesis of this epithermal system...nature of alteration and mineralization of the alunite-pyrite-enargite assemblage in the deposit. Early...widespread propylitic zones. Alunite of this stage occurs as fine intergrowths of alunite-quartz ± kaolinite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701, Residencial San José de La Huerta, 58341 Morelia, Mich., Mexico 3...al., , 2015, 2019; Reyes, 1990). The geological province known as the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB)...Mexico (Fig. 1) is an active volcanic arc. This province has undergone extensive events since the Late...TMVB, Los Azufres Caldera (Arce et al., 2012) and San Bartolomé de Los Baños (Canet et al., 2019) central...Torres-Alvarado et al., 2007). In that geological province, the study of alteration minerals has been a useful
Journal (issue)
change in the vegetation. There are signs of illegal mine pits on the hill. They were not visible on earlier...area continues until 1970. We can separate smaller mine pits and two bigger mines on the east side on the...Emilia García Romero1, José Angel López García1, Manuel Regueiro1,2 and José Antonio Molina The Department...carries out every year a field geology course in San José − Rodalquilar (Almería, SE Spain. The region of...de géologie sur le terrain dans le secteur de San José – Rodalquilar (région d’Almeria, au Sudest de
Journal (volume)
20 and 1. January to December 1915. Accounts Mine, System Action of Dissolved Air of, in Mill Pulp...and Folation, Air and Temperature in the Deepest Mine in the World,. Air, Compressed, for Ore Flotation...Uplift, Complete Testing Laboratory, forperanza Mine, Compressed Air for Ore Flotation, Concentrates...ores of Tin, Assif, Berenguela Tin District, Bolivia, Blast Furnace Slag, Lead, Zinc Oxide from, Boiler...of, Bolivia, Berenguela Tin District, Bolivia, Conditions of Tin Mining, Bolivia, Map of, Bolivia, Mineral
 
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