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Chalcopyrite from
Loreto Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Loreto Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:633826
Long-form Identifier:1:3:633826:8
GUID (UUID V4):51a37104-3751-4421-af53-9c69c68a5c4e
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, i9i 9 No. I THE VEINS OF CHAi{IARCILLO, CHILE.• W. L. W•IT•-a•-.•D. CONTENTS. PATE. Introduction......................... i The Region of North Chile ........................................... The...WHITEHEAD. gold, were disappointed in the regionof Atacama;but, upon findinggold in the rich veinsof Malga-Malgaat...maximum exploitation, from about •86o to x88o, Chile enjoyeda period of mining prosperitylong to be remembered...the bibliography. THE VEINS OF CHAI•ARCILLO, CHILE. of the district were flooded. A few tentative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Bargone, Boccassuolo, Campegli, Casali–Monte Loreto, Corchia, Reppia and Vigonzano. This question of... Monte Loreto and their stockwork ore in gabbro (4b), while Boccassuolo, Casali, Monte Loreto and ReppiaReppia...pillow basalt [12]. The most important minerals chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite and pillow basalt (2),(2)...[12]. The most important oreore minerals areare chalcopyrite, pyrite, rarely pyrrhotite either in the massive...minerals Accessories Accessories Bargone 4b Pyrite, chalcopyrite (sphalerite) prehnite (calcite, chlorite) Bornite
Book
Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Sulfides in the Greenstone Belt of South-Central Chile - An Overview G. Alfaro and S. Callao . . . . ....Formation and Massive Sulfide Orebodies, South-Central Chile: Geologic and Isotopic Aspects S. Callao, G. Alfaro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stratiform settings with aggregates of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite closely associated with silicates mainly...Cornaio, Bargone, Campegli, Piazza and M. Mesco). Chalcopyrite, bornite, neodigenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and...related structures mainly defined by pyrite and chalcopyrite, whereas sphalerite, pyrrhorite, marcasite,...13-Bargone 14-Gallinar~a 15-Casali 16-Campegli 17-M. Loreto 18-Pi.... 19-M. Rossola . Mesco in the northern... Bardeneto, Libiola, Gallinaria, Casali and M. Loreto. T h e stratiform deposits (M. Bardeneto and M
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1988) or Gold Deposits from the Sonoran Desert Province (Pérez-Segura, 1993); nevertheless, previous names...dissected by the current extensional Basin and Range province, and originated in the active North American...basement rocks and, most especially, with the province of Yavapai Paleoproterozoic granitc rocks, and...Also, the same authors postulate that the Yavapai province represents a crustal weakness area that might...Orogenic Gold belt Area, NW Sonora, México. Area Mine Method Mineral Age Estación Llano Quitovac-La
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Andeanregions,extendingalmostfrom Ecuadorto Chile. Cretaceous anthracite is the most abundant; it...othertributariesof the Amazonin the departmentof Loreto. Var•adium.--Minasgragra(1) in Junin produced99...feetbelowthe surface. The oreis cut by a porphyrydike. The mine yieldedmany thousandtons of a shippingproductsgradingbetter...individual depositsare said to be small. The Buena Suerte mine in Puno has probablybeen the largest producer....continentaldivide,containsmarmatite,galena,and chalcopyrite in a garnetite gangue. In the south,in Cuzcoand
Book
region is examined, as is the survival of early mine archaeology in different geological settings. Survey...application of lead isotope analysis to identify early mine sources pioneered by Noel Gale, Zofia Stos-Gale,...Fig. 1.3. The mineralization of the Great Orme mine, north Wales 9 Fig. 1.4. Base metal metallogeny...Edge mine, England 18 Fig. 1.6. Modern research: Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina at El Aramo mine, Asturias...Fig. 1.7. The largest historic copper open-pit mine in Europe: Corta Atalaya, Rio Tinto, Huelva, Spain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage is pyrrhotite-pentlandite-pyrite-(chalcopyrite), but millerite is locallysignificant.The massiveoresin...evidencefor sucha phenomenon, but elsewhere in the mine this picritic zone doesappear to ultramafic rocks...rocksoccurswell up in the hanging-wallbasalt(Figs. mine,but bothhighmagnesian I and 4). The lower member...and the rhotite are the dominant sulfideswith chalcopyrite Kambalda footwall basalt. and sphaleritebeingminor...obscuredby structuralcomplexity. pentlandite,pyrite-chalcopyrite,and spinel assem- GEOLOGY OF THE KAMBALDA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline,beryl,apatite,axinite,wolframite, chalcopyrite, andmolybdenite largelywithinan otherwise quartzsericite...amounts of disseminatedwolframite, molybdenite, chalcopyrite,bornite,pyrite, and other ore minerals are common...pre-Consuzostockin ageand definitely nated molybdenite,chalcopyrite,and wolframiteocpremineralization. The fact...Miocene Lavasen minor amountsare molybdenite,chalcopyrite,bornVolcanics(Wilson et al., 1967; Wilson and...veinsystem (N-S cross section), andC. Consuzo (Loreto)veinsystem (NW•SEcross section) shown. Dotsindicate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
may not be available for the specific geological province, and regional-scale overprinting by syn- or postmetamorphic... cct  ‘chalcocites’, chl  chlorite, ccp  chalcopyrite, cv  covellite, dg  digenite, dol  dolomite... Montecatini Val di Cecina 18. Piazza 17. M. Loreto 15. La Reale (Piamprato, Valprato Soana) 16. Libiola...deposits may reflect the higher proportion of chalcopyrite in the separates (cf. Tables S1 and S2). This...strong partitioning of Co in pyrite relative to chalcopyrite in the ores, whereas Ni concentrations are similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1984; Venturelli et al., 1981). In the Modena province, including the Boccassuolo ophiolite, basaltic...characterized by a monotonous sulfide assemblage pyrite–chalcopyrite–sphalerite with accessory pyrrhotite, in a gangue...et al. (2009). (Py–Cp) = massive pyrite and chalcopyrite; (Sph) = massive sphalerite. (*) Except galena-rich...location in circles: 1) Due Livelli mine, 2) Lumaca prospect, 3) Allagata mine, 4) Dolicopoda–Pipistrello prospects...prospects, 5) Labirintica mine, La Pioppaccia dump, 6) Filone Omar outcrop, 7) Lame prospect A, 8) basaltic
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . 51 Copper Metallurgy in Northern Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kambalda mining districts in the Eastern Goldfields Province, a continental-margin orogen subdivided into the...districts are located in the Eastern Goldfields Province (EGP) of the Yilgarn Craton, a composite orogenic...Kambalda (Compston et al. 1986) suggest that the province represents a continental-margin orogen. The EGP...inner selvages of D4 quartz veins Mt Charlotte mine, 21 and 22 levels, combined data 6597760N, 354840E...Kanowna Belle gold mine, sample KWA-1, 6612322N, 363994E Kanowna Belle gold mine, hole DDH-429, 260–262
Report (issue)
cyanide and toxic metals released from the Summitville mine on downstream water supplies and crops. The distribution...framework and ore genesis from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the Venezuelan Andes. Our cosponsors...cordillera, southern Peru, western Bolivia, and northern Chile Edwin H. McKee (USGS), Peter Craig Gibson, Donald...J.A., and Smith, K.S.-lmpact of the Summitville mine on Aleinikoff, J.N., Peterman, ZE., Widmann, B...concentrations in the wetland vegetation receiving acid mine drainage from St. Kevin Gulch, Leadville, Colorado
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Plio-Pleistocene sediments and tuffs persistssouthwardpast Loreto, where the Comondfivolcanics cut out the belt (Fig...magnetite-hematite oresall containmore or lesspyrite and chalcopyrite, and the iron belt is coextensivewith one of...sheetedzonecarriessmallmasses and stringersof chalcopyrite shotthrough sheared,brecciatedand hydrothermallyaltered... specularite andpyrrhotite, withsphalerite, chalcopyrite andgalena. Deposition wasin theordernamed. Pyriteandmarcasite...alsooccur,believedby Moehlmanto havebeenderived from chalcopyrite by supergene acidsolutions.Gold occursfree and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Seabed Sediments of the Chiloé–Taitao Area, Southern Chile, and Implications for Ore Deposits Marisol Pérez...Area, Southern Chile, and Implications for Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370450...8370450, Chile; marisol.perez.h@ing.uchile.cl (M.P.); btownley@ing.uchile.cl (B.T.); kdeckart@ing.uchile...Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370451, Chile Correspondence: mgarciagodoy@ing.uchile...has been documented for the seabed offshore of Chile, which is particularly interesting due to its geodynamic
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...Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno 329
Report (issue)
currently provides about 7 per cent of the world‘s mine production of nickel (1978).It is the third largest...of sulphide nickel, supplying some 12 per cent of mine production, and possessing nearly 15 per cent of......... Pilbara Block .......... Albany-Fraser Province .................................................................................... Gascoyne Province ............................................................................. 207 Halls Creek Province ..... Keller Creek prospect .................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(up to 2.3 mm long) has been deformed. Pyrite, chalcopyrite and clinochlore are spatially associated with...enclosing smaller crystals of quartz, pyrite and chalcopyrite. Biotite is common throughout and overprints...Euhedral iron-sulfides (mostly pyrite, minor chalcopyrite) occur throughout, however iron-oxides and chlorite...subsidence and stacked Gilberttype fan deltas, Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentary...turbidity currents in marine Gilbert‐type fan deltas, Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sedimentology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be located (Wilson 1994). Born was a miner and a mine-oriented mineralogist. Thus, he not only taught...Mottana et al. hand lens in a specimen from the Boiza mine in Transylvania, which is in our cabinet [i.e. the...samples of "oro piritoso" from the S. Maria di Loreto mine near Fazerbayer in Transylvania. He asserts that... the gold sample from the Immaculate Conception mine near Nagyág present now in the collection (n. 17;...sphalerite on quartz, from the Immaculate Conception mine near Nagyág (Sacarâmb) in Dacia (Transylvania, now
Journal (issue)
0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy...mineralogy. INTRODUCTION Our interest in the Outlaw mine, the type locality for benjaminite, began in the early
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Associated with Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides, Fukazawa Mine, Hokuroku District, Japan St.1. KALOGEROPOULOS and...evidence they find in the barite zone at the Fukazawa mine as indicating the mixing of a circulating barium-rich...diagrams. The zoning copper/chalcocite/bornite/chalcopyrite/pyrite is portrayed by a log!...copper concentration is only 0.1 mg/l in the chalcopyrite field. The chapter of Schmidt, Schumacher, Spieth... The sulfides are predominantly pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite with cubanite, and pentlandite occurring mostly
Journal (issue)
Genoa Province, Northern Italy. 1— Cassagna mine 2—Gambatesa mine 3— Molana quarry 4— Molinello mine 5—...Bianco copper mine 7— Monte Bossea mine 8— Monte Coppello-Reppia prospect 9— Monte Porcile mine 10— Nascio...Nascio 11—Scrava mine 12— Pontori Prospect h CD ^ .L IG iU R IA f \ ( I A X , X. LA SPE^IA [ / ,...complex of Libiola and in the neighboring Monte Loreto area, about 10 km from Val Graveglia, stone hammers...most important mines were located in the Monte Loreto and Libiola areas; in Val Graveglia some copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Investigator Date Moose Horn Mine, Elk Lake, Ont. Hudson Bay Mine, Cobalt, Ont. Keeley Mine, South Lorrain, Ont...Ont. Moose Horn Mine, Elk Lake, Ont. Peacock and Michener Peacock and Michener Peacock and Dadson Harcourt...Ontario (brilliant cubes in chlorite from Temiskaming Mine, which are apparently identical with those analysed...very little nickel and iron; No. 18 Horace Porter Mine, Gunnison Co., Colo., analysis No. 172; No. 19 Schneeberg...near Schneeberg, Saxony McCay 18 Gesellschaft Mine, Schneeberg, Saxony 19 .) (* las * Original
Report (issue)
geochemistry and mineralization of the Washington mine area, Huepac, Sonora [abs.] in Najera-Garza, J....related to pegmatites at the San Antonio tungsten mine, Baviacora, Sonora, Mexico [abs.]: Geological Society...1982, A study of manganese ore composition, Lucifer mine, Baja California, Mexico [abs.]: Geological Society...Garcia-Gutierrez, L., 1969, The manganese metallogenic province in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico in Cordoba,...exploration program at the El Barril Project, La Sirena Mine, North Baja California]: Seminario interno sobre
 
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