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Sericite from
Agua Rica Mine, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Agua Rica Mine, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:617693
Long-form Identifier:1:3:617693:8
GUID (UUID V4):f010be40-6806-49e4-b337-4a5d59368ae4
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
6.4km (4.0 miles) Filo Colorado Cu-Mo deposit, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
26.9km (16.7 miles) Bajo de San Lucas Cu deposit, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
29.9km (18.6 miles) Bajo El Durazno Cu deposit, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
37.0km (23.0 miles) La Blende deposit, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
38.3km (23.8 miles) Bajo de Agua Tapada Cu deposit, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
39.8km (24.7 miles) Farallón Negro, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
72.1km (44.8 miles) Veta Calzada, Cerro León Muerto, Papachacra pegmatites, Papachacra, Corral Quemado, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
77.3km (48.0 miles) La Angostura, El Mollar, Tafí del Valle Department, Tucumán Province, Argentina
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Breccia-Hosted Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit at Agua Rica, Argentina: Progressive Unroofing of a Magmatic Hydrothermal... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of...Detailed geologic mapping has been used to show that Agua Rica is a porphyry-style Cu-Mo-Au deposit that was...Negro Volcanic Complex in northwestern Argentina. The Agua Rica deposit lies next to the contact between
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vein system: Alto de la Blenda, Farallón Negro, Argentina M. Florencia Márquez-Zavalía 1,2 & Christoph A... CCT Mendoza, CONICET, CC 330, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina 2 Mineralogía y Petrología, FAD, Universidad...Universitario, 5502 Mendoza, Argentina 3 Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences...The Farallón Negro mining district (also known as Agua de Dionisio district; Peirano 1944; Angelelli 1984)...et al. 2005, 2011; von Quadt et al. 2011) and Agua Rica (Koukharsky and Mirré 1976; Navarro 1986; Roco
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chronometers, Bajo de la Alumbrera copper–gold deposit, Argentina Anthony C. Harris & W. James Dunlap & Peter W...de la Alumbrera porphyry copper–gold deposit, Argentina, reveals a complex history of reheating that Editiorial...Australia P. W. Reiners Geology and Geophysics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA...Brisbane, Australia Present address: P. W. Reiners Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...at the same time that mineralization formed at Agua Rica, some 25 km away. All available chronologic data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope evolution of the Agua Rica Cu-Au Porphyry-Epithermal Deposit, NW Argentina Maurício L. Borba, Colombo...isotope evolution of the Agua Rica Cu-Au Porphyry-Epithermal Deposit, NW Argentina, Ore Geology Reviews (2020)...isotope evolution of the Agua Rica Cu-Au Porphyry-Epithermal 3 Deposit, NW Argentina 4 Maurício L. Borba¹...Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 05508- 6 080 7 ²Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...flat-subduction zone including the world-class Agua Rica Cu- 16 Au (Mo) porphyry-epithermal deposit,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyryrelated ore system. Present address: J. M. Palin Department of Geology, University of Otago, 9001 Dunedin...Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu–Au deposit, NW Argentina, are cogenetic with stratigraphically well-constrained...C. Harris (&) Æ S. E. Bryan Æ R. J. Holcombe Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland...assemblages, while phyllic alteration (quartz–sericite ± pyrite) develops as the magmatic–hydrothermal...commonly analyzed minerals (i.e., biotite and sericite) prevents the high-temperature geochronology of
Book
Discovery of the Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit,Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously...f southern Russia. Further east a metallogenic province embracing early to mid Mesozoic deposits runs...the younger Cu-Au rich porphyries o f western Argentina. In addition, there are intervals in which particular...Chile Chile Chile Chile Chile Chile Chile Argentina Argentina ('u-Au Cu Cu-Mo Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit at Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina THOMAS ULRICH,†,* ETH Zürich, Isotope Geochemistry...porphyry copper-gold deposit in northwestern Argentina. The deposit occurs in the K-rich calc-alkaline...the andesites. Feldspar-destructive alteration (sericite + pyrite ± clay minerals ± gypsum) overprints...and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...zonation, Bajo de la Alumbrera in northwestern Argentina has been regarded as a textbook example, as is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit at Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina THOMAS ULRICH,†,* ETH Zürich, Isotope Geochemistry...porphyry copper-gold deposit in northwestern Argentina. The deposit occurs in the K-rich calc-alkaline...the andesites. Feldspar-destructive alteration (sericite + pyrite ± clay minerals ± gypsum) overprints...and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...zonation, Bajo de la Alumbrera in northwestern Argentina has been regarded as a textbook example, as is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper-typedepositlocatedin northwesternArgentina in the province of Catamarca. It was investigatedby Cities Service Minerals...southern and highest hills of the provinceof Catamarca, in the .districtof Andalgal/t AconquijaRange...AconquijaRange,whosetopmostpeakis N,evadodel in n.orthwest Argentina. Geographical coordinatesCandado,5,450m above...trend. There are someindication.s central Catamarca province to the Mi Vida-Filo suggestinga ,relationbetweenthat...Vaca Vizcanax Andesiteporphyry Quartz monzonite ? Agua Tapada Dacite porphyry Country rock Lower Paleozoic
Book (edition)
Chile Las Condes, Santiago Chile David I. Groves Department of Geology and Geophysics, Centre for Exploration...Mineral Deposits (former ARC Key Centre) within the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of...Edition incorporates new data and references from Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting.... . . . 6.4.1 Agua Rica Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEPOSITS OF THE “LA CAROLINA” DISTRICT, SAN LUIS (ARGENTINA). Gallard-Esquivel M.C.1, Cepedal A.2, Fuertes-Fuente...A.2 1 Department of Geology, University National of San Luis-CONICET, Argentina 2 Department of Geology...district, in the San Luis metallogenetic belt (Argentina), are spatially and genetically related to Mio-Pliocene...27º00´-33º30´ segment in the central Andes of Argentina records a Miocene-Pliocene magmatic episode related...Bajo de la Alumbrera (e.g. Proffett, 2004) and Agua Rica (e.g. Landtwing et al., 2002; Franchini et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PORPHYRY-EPITHERMAL SYSTEM Panagiotis C. VOUDOURIS§ Department of Mineralogy-Petrology, University of Athens...Athens, 15784, Greece Vasilios MELFOS Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Aristotle...Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece Paul G. SPRY Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 253 Science...area may represent a new Au-Re-Te metallogenetic province. Keywords: Porphyry, epithermal, vapor, hypersaline...northern Luzon, Philippines, La Famatina and Agua Rica, Argentina, and the Maricunga, Chile ore districts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volcanic Belt in the Sierras Pampeanas of San Luis, Argentina a b N. P. Urbina , P. Sruoga & L. Malvicini...Av. Ejército de los Andes 950, San Luis, 5700, Argentina b CONICET , Secretaría de Minería , Av. J. A...A. Roca 651, Capital Federal, 1322, Argentina Published online: 06 Jul 2010. To cite this article: N...Volcanic Belt in the Sierras Pampeanas of San Luis, Argentina, International Geology Review, 39:4, 287-306,...Av. Ejército de los Andes 950, 5700 San Luis, Argentina P. SRUOGA, AND L. MALVICINI CONICET, Secretaría
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth...Zijinshan orefield (ZOF) is located in Fujian Province and is the richest Au-Cu mining area in southeast...either alunite alteration zone that overprints sericite-alteration (Q-Alu-Di-Phy; Zhong et al., 2018)...dickite alteration zone (So et al., 1998), and (4) a sericite alteration (Phy) zone (Zhang et al., 1991, 2001a...alunite, quartz, pyrite, and minor dickite and sericite, and is spatially associated with HSE copper mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
15784 Athens, Greece; voudouris@geol.uoa.gr Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics, University...54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; melfosv@geo.auth.gr Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa...with back-scattered imaging capabilities, at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Athens...the central part of the West Thrace metallogenic province, lies the Sapes-Kirki area, which mainly comprises...the central part of the West Thrace metallogenic province, lies the Sapes-Kirki area, which mainly comprises
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
de la Alumbrera Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Argentina JOHN M. PROFFETT† P. O. Box 772066, Eagle River...Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Argentina, is in the eastern Andes, near the north edge...alteration, consisting mostly of veinlet-controlled sericite-quartz-pyrite, is younger than all secondary K-feldspar...inside and outside this shell. Pyrite veins with sericite-quartz-pyrite alteration cut Postmineral porphyries...within the Farallón Negro district, Catamarca Province, northwest Argentina, in the eastern Andes (Figs. 1–4A)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
José Verdugo 3 and Claudio Martínez 3 1 2 3 * Department of Geology and Andean Geothermal Center of Excellence...flotation concentrates from 33 PCDs from Chile, Peru, Argentina, US, Canada, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....underground mine, and the Don Luis (DL) and Sur–Sur (SS) open pits (Figure 1B). In 2017, the mine produced...defined by the development of C-type gray–green sericite (GGS) veinlets with quartz + chalcopyrite, and...D-type quartz–sericite veinlets (QS), composed of quartz + pyrite ± chalcopyrite and sericite ± clays (illite–kaolinite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VALENCIA,† CHRISTOPHER EASTOE, JOAQUÍN RUIZ, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...Transversal, Hermosillo, México GEORGE GEHRELS, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...(UNAM), Hermosillo Sonora, México FERNANDO BARRA, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...event, is represented by quartz veins with pyrite-sericite + chlorite and is associated with chalcopyrite...represented by quartz-tennantitechalcopyrite-pyrite-sericite veinlets, formed in the core of the porphyry deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
through potentially ore-grade potassic, chlorite-sericite, and sericitic, to advanced argillic, the last...low- to moderatesalinity liquid that causes the sericite-chlorite and sericitic alteration and associated...Bajo de la Alumbrera (Farallón Negro dist.) & Agua Rica Nevados del Famatina Northparkes Pascua-Lama...C A 26° El Salvador Potrerillos COPIAPÓ ARGENTINA LA SERENA 30° Lineament Fault Porphyry Cu deposit...the latest Cretaceous to Paleocene (Laramide) province of southwestern North America, middle Eocene to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hussain, Z.; Tao, C.; Li, 7 8 * Marine Science Department, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China;...University, Sanya 572025, China Earth Science Department, Karakoram International University, Gilgit 15100...brecciation of quartz quartz and carbonate filled by sericite; (e) first stage of silicification enclosed the...+ Py-I; (e/a) showand the carbonate filled by sericite; (e) first stage ofofsilicification thestage coarse-grained...plagioclase (h) fine grain aggregates of alteration sericite andmineral; quartz (g) sericites with plagioclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
previous ideas on what is without doubt a kind of “mine field”, because if a classification is based on...al., 2007): 1) Planetary-scale deposit-hosting province or planetary-scale metallogenic belt (1000 x...subprovince (2 to 20 by 103 km2); T 4) metallogenic province (20 to 40 x 103 km2); 7) ore cluster (concentration...anomalous concentration of metals Operating/abandoned mine: workings that are operating or on care and maintenance...mineral system remains, if I may use the expression, a mine field, as testified by the abundance of books and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyry environment of Quebrada de la Mina deposit, Argentina Laura Maydagán, Marta Franchini, Agnes Impiccini...porphyry environment of Quebrada de la Mina deposit, Argentina, Ore Geology Reviews (2017), doi: https://doi...porphyry environment of Quebrada de la Mina deposit, Argentina 3 4 5 Laura Maydagán a,b,⁎ , Marta Franchini...Daniel Beaufort f 6 7 a 8 b 9 c d e Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick...del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300 Neuquén, Argentina 14 15 Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
China 6 c Anhui Province Engineering Research Center for Mineral Resources and Mine Environments,Hefei...alteration zone, a chlorite alteration zone and a sericite-pyrite alteration zone. 21 A detailed mapping...fracture zones, which formed K-Na silicate to sericite altered 28 magmatic-hydrothermal breccia, from...biotite-albite stage, chlorite 30 stage and sericite-pyrite stage. Hydrothermal breccia with a high...copper-gold-silver deposit 46 (Pass et al, 2014), and the Agua Rica porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit (Landtwing et al., 2002)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scheffer7, Alexander Repstock8, Manuela Zeug9 1 Department of Geology & Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian...Thessaloniki, Greece; melfosv@geo.auth.gr 3 Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa...alteration, and are associated with sericite-calcite and sericite-kaolinite alteration of the porphyry...studies, Voudouris and Alfieris (2005) reported sericite-carbonate- and K-Na-silicate alteration of the...with back-scattered imaging capabilities, at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Athens
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...the Arroyo Rojo VMS deposit (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) ......................... 502 Biel. C., Colás...Ahola Occurrence of gold (electrum) in the Lousal mine, Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal ..................Mo-Ni-PGE black shales (Zunyi region, Guizhou province, south China) .................................deposits in the Cretaceous rocks of Neuquén basin, Argentina María JosefinaPons, Ana Laura Rainoldi, Marta
 
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