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Pyrite from
Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Vivianite46 photos of Pyrite associated with Vivianite at this locality.
Siderite2 photos of Pyrite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Fluorapatite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Galena1 photo of Pyrite associated with Galena at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9038
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9038:4
GUID (UUID V4):6fdb5cb6-39ab-4f97-ba81-001a51c998e2
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
1.6km (1.0 miles) Santa Fé Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
8.1km (5.0 miles) Japo Mine (Negro Pabellón Mine), Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
12.9km (8.0 miles) La Reina mine (La Reyna mine), Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
16.9km (10.5 miles) Huanuni mine, Huanuni, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
29.5km (18.3 miles) Vinto prospect, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
33.2km (20.6 miles) Santa Cruz Mine, Poopó, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
33.5km (20.8 miles) Ichocollo Mine (Monserrat Mine), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
34.4km (21.4 miles) San Francisco Mine, Poopó, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
35.3km (21.9 miles) Vila Apacheta, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí, Bolivia
36.7km (22.8 miles) Antequera Mine (Tihua Mines), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tin-Polymetallic Mineralization in the Oruro Mining District, Central Bolivian Tin Belt Asahiko SUGAKI...vein-type tin-polymetallic ore deposits of the Oruro mining district in the central part of the Bolivian tin...concluded that hypogene mineralization in the Oruro mining district took place during the early to middle Miocene:...Miocene: 15.8±0.8 Ma at San José, 20.1±1.1 Ma at Morococala, 20.5±1.0 Ma at Avicaya, and 19.6±1.0 Ma at Llallagua...alunite, jarosite, sericite, sulfur isotope, Oruro, Bolivia mineralization epochs of Bolivian epigenetic-type
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...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...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Report (issue)
pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...while the huge open pit excavation—where borate mining goes on to this day—was being enlarged. Some of...cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Rocks of Africa...last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Now a few more
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elements in the Sn–W–Pb–Ag–Zn Huanuni Deposit, Bolivia Andreu Cacho 1 , Joan-Carles Melgarejo 1 , Antoni...maria.pura.alfonso@upc.edu Colegio de Geólogos de Bolivia, Edificio Señor de la Exaltación Nro. 4683, Av...1 y 2, Zona de Obrajes, Casilla 8941, La Paz, Bolivia; info@osvaldoarce.com Eloro Resources Ltd. Av....high-temperature (and low pH) mineralising fluids. District-scale mineralogical zonation suggests a thermal...temperatures from the central to the peripheral areas. A district-scale zonation has been also determined for δ34
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1960 A COMPARATIVE STUDY CENTRAL OF MAJOR BOLIVIA. No. 2 ORE DEPOSITS PART OF I F. S. TURNEAURE...219 Potosi district ..................................................... Llallagua-Oruro region .....Eastern Andes of central Bolivia, the tin depositsof Llallagua, Huanuni and Morococala,and the tin-silver depositsof...depositsof Potosiand Oruro. The deposits at Potosi, Llallagua and Oruro are associatedwith porphyry intrusions...veins of Huanuni and Morococala occur in altered sedimentaryrocks. In the Llallagua-Oruro region, the Pa
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....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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the polymetallic hydrothermal ore deposits in Bolivia A. Sugaki ~, S. Kojima ~ and N. Shimada 2 i Institute...barite from the 28 tin-polymetallic ore deposits in Bolivia. Generally, the homogenization temperatures and...cassiterite mineralization, such as Morococala and Avicaya in the Oruro district, frequently indicating a temperature...Avicaya-Bolivar mining area in the Oruro district as well as at the Tasna and ChocayaAnimas mining areas in...in the Quechisla district temperature gradients consistent with the zonal distributions of ore minerals
Report (issue)
Fernando Urquidi B., American Embassy, La Paz, Bolivia; and Raul Sal as 0., Servicio Nacional de Geologia...sulfur deposits associated with stratovolcanos in Bolivia and Chile ........................ 5. 12A 15A...polymetallic Sn and Sn-Ag deposits in southern Bolivia, which are associated with porphyry stocks and...region of southern Peru, northern Chile, western Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina. The information presented...72° \ 12° 12° PERU Macusani > 16' ijj®BOLIVIA 16" Vs. m^:::::: : ::::;:::::::t LaPaz Are'q:u:|jjjj|:;:|
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL BOLIVIA. F.S. PART II TURNEAURE PART II PAGE Descriptionof...or 40 vein mineralshave beenrecognizedin each district, but many of these occurin smallquantityand only...widely replacedby mineralsof later age, especiallyby pyrite, marcasiteand siderite. However, residualgrainsand...arsenopyrite, sphaleriteand stannite,and (b) marcasite,pyrite, minor arsenopyrite,and siderite. These correspondrespectivelyto...parallelism. Steplike grain boundaries,rows of pyrite grains, and angular inclusionsof pyrrhotite may
Journal (issue)
Trebisky and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California..........................Henderson The Mineralogy of the Department of Oruro, Bolivia..............................................c o rc l W \ Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina...made his mark in a tourmaline find at the B.B. #7 mine in north Norway, Maine, and came to fame as the...Maine, and proceeded to learn Maine’s pegmatites by mining them. He has, over the years, mined commercial-grade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
central Andean tin belt in the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia (Fig. 1). The tin belt extends from southern Peru...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...producer of the world and became an important tin mine in the early twentieth century. The cumulated Ag...are two major epochs of tin mineralization in Bolivia. Tin-tungsten mineralization in association with
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...Camargo Gallegos Universidad TeÂcnica de Oruro, Oruro, Bolivia Present address: B. MuÈller Division of...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)
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...m the sharp bend in the Andes (the Elbow) near Santa Cruz to the Tunari fault zone north of Cochabamba...determinations of interbeddedvol- THE BOLIVIAN TIN-SILVER PROVINCE • .•, 660 (j•.L__ok_ .e• ,. 'Tiffcoco.•:'L•
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geolo Blackbird Mine, Cobalt, Lemhi County, Idaho Downloaded by [University...North Groton, New Hampshire, and at the State Forest mine, East Hampton, Connecticut. Roberts and Rapp (1965)...South Dakota. Here, it occurred in the Bull Moose mine, Custer County, as beautiful apple-green to pale...relatively plentiful in mines of the Keystone district, Pennington County, including the Big Chief, Dan...most famous ludlamite occurrence is the Blackbird mine, near Cobalt, Lemhi County, Idaho, an occurrence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stephen F. Greb. July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan...photo. September/October: PhosphophylIite, Potosi, Bolivia. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December:...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht...Mineralogical Bookplates, J. Sinkankas, 108-11 Colorado Pyrite, Featured Mineral at the 1994 Denver Show, B. M...Pedro Mine, Malacacheta District, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 320-22; Vivianite, Morococala Area, Oruro, Bolivia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article The Poopó Polymetallic Epithermal Deposit, Bolivia: Mineralogy, Genetic Constraints, and Distribution...Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Colegio de Geólogos de Bolivia, Av. Hernando Siles entre calles 1 y 2, Zona de...Señor de la Exaltación Nro. 4683, La Paz 8941, Bolivia Correspondence: camprubitaga@gmail.com; Tel.: +52-55-56224310...of löllingite and pyrrhotite by arsenopyrite and pyrite, respectively, indicate that this deposit is ascribed...[2]. In the particular case of Bolivia, the organisation of most mining activities is twofold: it is either
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic-hydrothermal systems of the Bolivian tin province. The average boron content in melt inclusions...and porphyry deposits of the Andean tin belt of Bolivia and southernmost Peru. Both metal provinces represent...granite/porphyry systems (San Rafael, San JoseÂ/ Oruro, Llallagua, Cerro Rico de Potosi, Chorolque) (Grant...framework of the central Andes The Andean tin belt of Bolivia, SE Peru and northernmost Argentina (Fig. 1), usually...Paleozoic clastic rocks of the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia, in tourmaline-quartz-sericite and chlorite The
Book
Tin miners — Nash, June HD8039.M72B66513 Bolivia C, 1927- II. . — Title. 1992 331.7'6223453'092-dc20...of Their Wedding 106 8 Married Life in the Mining Camp 124 9 The Triumph of the Revolution: The...Wealth 1 10 We Miners Lived Like Rats in the Mining 173 1 1 Luck Mines 12 Union 13 After the... 8 19 the Countryside to the in the in the Mine 19 Mines 95 Camp 1 ' Bury Myself Alive Every...GLOSSARY 379 I Spent My in the Mines Life BOLIVIA boundary Department boundary International National
Report (chapter)
hydrothermal systems in some sub-volcanic tin deposits of Bolivia J. N. Grant Department o f Geology, Royal School...Geol6gico de Bolivia ( G E O B O L ) , La Paz, Bolivia G. Avila Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia ( G E O B...B O L ) , La Paz, Bolivia 5 5 2 . 3 : 5 5 3 . 2 1 6 . 5 : 553.45(84) Synopsis The tin deposits o f the...southern part o f the Cordillera Oriental o f Bolivia consist of complex vein systems and pervasive disseminated...rocks are preserved (Llallagua, San Pablo de Morococala). A t others, both the intrusives and coeval
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
representing an important part of Australia’s mining and mineralogical heritage. In addition, it featured...Smithsonite. (7 × 4 cm; D49972), Broken Hill Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Prospect dolerite...Figure 6. Anglesite (5 × 3 cm; D49920), Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Figure 7. Pyromorphite...South Australia, collecting specimens from Olary Province and valuing the entire mineral collection of and...(4.7 × 3 cm; D49966), 17 Level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. specimens from these
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Sterling mine, Antwerp, New York ........ 199 G. W. Robinson...and S. C. Chamberlain Pseudomorphs from the Burra mine, South Australia ..............................219...cm long, on white natrolite from the Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California. For more on this...directed the electrification of various Spanish mine shafts and facilities near Tarragona, Almaden, and...years, beginning at the age of ten while visiting mining properties owned by his family. The first of his
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
205 feet), Tocorpuri on the border of Chile and Bolivia is 6,873 meters (22,550 feet), and the highest...narrow to only 32 kilometers (20 miles), whereas in Bolivia they Dr. Terry C. Wallace is a professor of geosciences...Americans were obtaining gold from placer deposits and mining and smelting oxidized copper ores in central Peru...(tucuna), which implies a rudimentary knowledge of mining and mineralogy. The mineral wealth was an integral...Florida] at 09:23 14 October 2014 vivianites from Oruro, Bolivia; and fantastic pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits of Miocene age in the Eastern Cordillera in Bolivia were studied by ICP/MS and EPMA for major and minor...concentration of trace amounts of indium. Keywords: Bolivia, indium, petrukite, polymetallic, Potosi, sphalerite...Lake Titicaca La Paz PERU Oruro Sn-polymetallic ore belt Arica BOLIVIA Potosi CHILE Lake Uyuni Border...terrains of Japan (Ishihara et al., 2006) and Bolivia (Ishihara & Murakami, 2008a). The total indium...(Sinclair et al., 2006). Tin-polymetallic deposits in Bolivia (Fig. 1) appear to be one of the major source regions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Tin and TungstenDepositsof the EasternAndes,Bolivia WM. C. KELLY AND F. S. TUR•E^URE Abstract Nu... were applied to ores of the Eastern Andes of Bolivia in order to evaluatetemperatureas one factor in...sulfidestage, (3) hypogenealteration of pyrrhotite to pyrite, marcasite,and siderite and (4) late crustsand...compositionswere modified during replacementby pyrite, marcasite and siderite and most do not reflect...reflects initial equilibration with pyrrhotite or pyrite, but its significancein terms of temperatureis
Catalog/List
140x90x20mm. £18. 3. ANTIMONITE. Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan, China. A single lead grey lustrous xl 110x9x7mn...4. APATITE AND SIDERITE ON QUARTZ. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portugal, An impressive display specimen...AURICHALCITE AND HEMIMORPHITE. Tecoma Hill Mine, Lucin District, Box Elder Co., Utah, USA. Beautiful pale...50x50x40ram. £28. 7., BARITE. Wilsons Stope, Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria. An interesting "hedgehog" group...circular banding. 60x50x20mm. £9. 9. BARITE. Parkside Mine, Egremont, Cumberland. A single terminated pale
 
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