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Silver from
Gallofa mine, Quebrada Honda, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gallofa mine, Quebrada Honda, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:654167
Long-form Identifier:1:3:654167:5
GUID (UUID V4):3ff7873e-d712-4f4e-812f-31acb6bfb085
References
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Report (issue)
PROSPECTS OF THE I, H, IE, IV, AND V REGIONS, NORTHERN CHILE compiled by William C. Williams Open-File Report...complement to my dissertation work in northern Chile under the auspices of Dr. John Guilbert at the University...prospects in the I, n, IE, IV, and V Regions of Chile (Figure 1). Over 3000 sites were compiled from published...Geologia y Yacimientos Metaliferos de la Region de Antofagasta: Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Boletin...well as descriptions of the major mines throughout Chile with insights as to their genesis. Finally, Frutos
Journal (issue)
por don F. El empleo del salitre en Chile. La importation de Chile i el perclorato en la fabricaeion de...Gliigliotto Salas Orlando Estudio sobre el mineral de Caracoles CAPITULO YII CRIADEROS Los criaderos que en...vetas i en 0 GANGAS esplotan las minas de Caracoles, son depositados en los filones, uniformes, al...mantos; son bastante siguiente regla jeneral: En Caracoles i en cualquiera de sus grupos,los filones 0 vetas...que facilitd la tarea de los descubridores de Caracoles. La abundancia de cloruros estraidos de los rasgos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kilometers (4,700 miles) from Colombia in the north to Chile in the south. They contain peaks second in height...meters (22,205 feet), Tocorpuri on the border of Chile and Bolivia is 6,873 meters (22,550 feet), and the...feet), marks the boundary between Argentina and Chile. Incredibly deep valleys and impassable terrain...margin of South America, from Colombia to the tip of Chile. divide into two ranges and bound a high-altitude...world's copper production, nearly 30 percent of the silver production, significant amounts of lead, zinc,
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featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family (Cook 1996). The species was chosen because...and historical importance as an ore mineral of silver, well-crystallized specimens of pyrargyrite have...recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...several Mexican occurrences. Ideally, pyrargyrite is silver antimony sulfide (Ag3SbS,). Most analyses show...several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are reported. It
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cycle .............. The Tertiary petrographic province ............................. The Tertiary me...excellentwork of Myron Davy (I92O), the Bolivian Tin Province has beenthe object of much detailedresearch. Its...a short summary of the present knowledgeof the province. Many questionshave not yet been solved;geologicaland...canism in themiddle andsouthern partsof thetin province pro• Theageof theyoungmagmatie rocksof Peru,especially...anotherbasicphase. TItE TERTIARY PETROGRAPItIC PROVINCE. The region of tin and relatedmetalsis a zone
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Sweden; Lengenbach, Switzerland; Chuquicamata, Chile; Musonoi and Shinkolobwe, Zaire; Tsumeb, Namibia;...Terlingua, Texas; Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec; Sierra, Gorda, Chile; and Schneeburg, Saxony. Nearly complete...Golden brown barite crystals, Villamassargia, near mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (8.5 cm). Iglesias, Sardinia...Enna, Sicily (6 cm). West 800 Level, White Capps mine, Man- 11: Dark grey stibnite crystals, (variety...hattan, Nevada (9.5 cm). Province, Afghanistan (5.3 cm). Figure 13: Silver, Calumet, Houghton County
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TERRY From antiqbi@, the quest for silver and, more recently, for silver minerals has M e n expbrers, conquerors...beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of the nobility...more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great wars. Silver is said to have...turn lead to silver (both of these myths are partially true!). To the mineral collector, silver minerals...unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more than one hundred different silver-bearing minerals
Report (issue)
COUNTRIES ~ •• (WAR PERIOD). ' . '. . ... SILVER . .. ~ . ... (1913- 1919) • • • . - ...due to the war in the~ publications relating to mining a.nd me-t ·a llurgical sta.t istics. Labour, health...of the Advisory Technical l Committe••e 011 Silver . (Signed) R. 1-\... S. REni1AYNE, Ghair1nan...••• • •• • •• • •• THE SILVER MARKET • • • ••• ••• • •• FINENESS OF WORLD'S SILVER COINAGE WORLD'S PRODUCTION...any other metal excepting gold. 'l'he tenacity of silver at 0°0. is about 18 tons per sq1.1a-1~e inch. Its
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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....owned by Richard Bideaux’s Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for quite a few years. Bideaux and Wayne...period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro
Report (issue)
ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...International border -----¡- Departmental border 22 + Antofagasta ! i A RGENT A 0 100 0 640 200 100 600............................ 4 BY ALFREDO PETROV Mining, Politics, and Tumult: A Brief Look at Bolivian...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District .............................................
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Thirty-four, Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Secondary minerals of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...1980 when he paid me a visit at the Jacupiranga mine; somehow he had learned of my mineralogical researches...studies of the mineralogy of the now-famous Brumado mine in Bahia, recovering countless superb crystal specimens
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respective names: "iron rose" (splitted hematite), "wire silver", "barbote's eye" (ball-curved micas), "iron cross"...Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hg)(Bi,Pb)Se2, is a new selenide from the El Dragόn mine, Bolivia. It typically occurs in thin subparallel...of his important role in boosting Bolivian ore mining. K E Y WO R D S : hansblockite, new mineral species...occurrences: Pacajake, district of Hiaco de Charcas, and El Dragόn, Province of Antonio Quijarro, both...geology and ore mineralization of the El Dragόn mine was first explored in detail by Grundmann et al...have been discovered in samples from the El Dragón mine, labelled phases ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ (cf. Paar et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occunnnxct: Found in the San Carlos silver-tin vein, Gallofa Mine, Colquechaca, Bolivia, associated with
Report (volume)
values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera. The Corporation...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Journal (issue)
IV. Metallurgy and Chemistry V. Mineralogy VI. Mining and Milling 187 II. ^ * 226 234 VII. Statistics... dikes, or placers of a particular country or district, and in the arrangement of this bibliography the...handling, and re" " and of tin ores are placed under Mining and Milling duction " Metallurgy." The lists given... Metallurgy and Chemistry; V, Mineralogy; VI, Mining and Milling; VII, Statistics. It is thought that...Institute of Mining Engi- New York. Transactions of the American neers, Insti- Mining Engineers, New
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...352 in citation of analysis no. for Quespisiza, Chile, read Quespisiza, 3, Peru. 354 and r on the...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg
Journal (volume)
Engineering and Mining Journal; ROTH WELL INGALLS Member American Institute of Mining Member Institution...Institution of Mining and Metallurgy; Engineers; Member Mining and Metallurgical Society of America ; Member...T to XVII PUBLISHED BY THE'ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY SOLE SELLING...19IO Copyright, 1910, BY The Engineering and Mining Journal , Hill Publishing Company New 7 orb...Consul-General of Bolivia, New York. Mining Engineer, Butte, Mont. Tin Mining in Bolivia. Coal Alining in Montana
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deposits, can only be considered to some extent. Mining selects, if possible, deposits which are not complicated...nickel + silver -f arsenic + bismuth + uranium, and, to mention a rarity, selenium + lead + silver + copper...sphalerite, silver, gold, and palladium. I n places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border
 
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