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Mercury from
La Coipa mine, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mercury
Formula:Hg
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mercury data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Coipa mine, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:538928
Long-form Identifier:1:3:538928:5
GUID (UUID V4):e5b4c628-6a0d-43c4-bc2f-160ae19d5d6d
Nearest other occurrences of Mercury
70.8km (44.0 miles) Marte Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1287-1300 General Geology of La Coipa PreciousMetal Deposit, Atacama,Chile Luis OVIEDO, Los Quillayes191...Quillayes191, Las Vertientes,SanJosdde Maipo, Chile NICOLAS FUSTER, NATASHA TSCHISCHOW, LUIS RIBBA, ALVIO ZUCCONE...6651, Copiapd,Chile ENRIQUE GREZ, Goldfields,Chile, S.A.,CarmenSylva2449, Santiago,Chile AND ANGELO AGUILAR...Minera Homestake,Chile S.A.,Pedrode Valdivia 0193, 4 ø Piso,Santiago,Chile Abstract The La Coipaore depositis...northernChile.Twomainmineralized zonesarepresentat La Coipa, Ladera-Farel16n andCoipaNorte,bothhostedby Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ileLtda., AvenidaPedrode Valdivia295, Santiago,Chile AND RICHARD H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill Park,HighgateVillage...and 28 ø S in the Andean Cordillera of northern Chile. After 10 yearsof exploration,three preciousmetal...alteration,whichcarriesbarite, nativesulfur,enargite,andat La Pepa,high-grade,vein-type goldmineralizationof highsulfidation...advancedargilliccapsare present,to the highest,mercury-richpart of the CathedralPeaksectorat Aldebaranand...38-2353.00 1238 Au PORPHYRY,MARICUNGA BELT, CHILE 1239 and west of Marte which compriseadvancedargillic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 86, 1991, pp. 1187-1205 Gold Metallogeny of Chile RICHARD an Introduction H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill...poorlymineralized. Paucityof golddepositsin the coastalzoneof Chile, concentration of highsulfidationand porphyry-typedepositsin...copper and silver enrichmentin northernand central Chile which took place during the Oligoceneand early Mioceneand...CHILEhasbeena modestgoldproducerfor the last central Chile (24o-37 ø S; Flores, 1942; Ruiz et al., fivecenturies...by-product of coppermining.The 18 principal tral Chile, commonlyat altitudescloseto or greater depositsincludedin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dredmetersof the 12 majorporphyrycopperdeposits in Chile was substantiated furtherby Alpersand Brimhall ...supergene alunitefromthe Eseondida porphyry copper province. Indeed,perhaps onlytwoof thesemajordepositsdeposit(Fig...Salvador(Gustafsonand Hunt, 1975) in northern Chile Chile,duringthe late Oligocene to earlyMioceneinterval...0361-0128/96/1809/164-1655.00 164 CHILEAN Cu PROVINCE: OXIDATION & ENRICHMENT in controlling anyagedifferences...ANGELINA 3' ½'*• I ß CHILE ?5 ø ,,,,)ARGENTINA ) 43.31 23 SanMiguel de Tucum•n (CERRO CAMPANA)I:::•C
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
86, 1991, pp. 1155-1173 A History of Gold in Chile W. A. CUADRA ShellSouthAfrica (Pty.) Ltd., MineralsDivision...MineraDaytonde ChileLtda., Balmaceda1691, La Serena,Chile Abstract AlthoughChileislessfamousasa gol...gold,but duringtheir brief dominationof partsof Chile the Incasdevelopeda numberof mainlyplacermines....there havebeen four cyclicperiodsof gold outputin Chile. The firstwasfromthe foundingof Santiagoin 1541...awaymanyof Chile'sgold miners.The mostimportantnew gold mine wasE1 Guanaco,which may have achievedan outputof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 97, pages 1013–1042, 2012 Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record...earliest recorded appearances of the 88 IMA-approved mercury minerals plus two potentially valid species exemplify...years ago, mercury minerals have been present continuously at or near Earth’s surface. Mercury mineral evolution...In constrast, few Hg deposits or new species of mercury minerals are reported from the intervals of supercontinent...also marked by a significant decline in reported mercury mineralization; however, rocks of the last 65 million
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
products are typically metal deficient, although mercury concentrations are relatively commonplace and were...northern Chile (see Sillitoe 1994). b Steam-heated alteration exposed in a road cut above the Coipa Norte...Norte HS gold-silver orebody at La Coipa, northern Chile. Note its white, friable character. c Steam-heated...alteration peripheral to the La Coipa HS-IS gold-silver district, Chile. f Hydrothermal breccia, generated...steam-heated zone, Pascua-Lama HS gold-silver deposit, Chile. Geologist stands just left of contact with non-brecciated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MineraFMCLtda.,La Capitanfa163,LasCondes, Santiago, Chile Abstract The ParadisePeakgold-silver-mercury depositin...suchassomeof thosein the Nansatsudistrict,Japan.The mercury,ascinnabar,andnativesulfurwere addedto the preciousmetalore...similarporphyrygolddepositsin the Maricunga belt, northern Chile. An episodeof detachmentfaultingaffectedthe Pa...FMC Gold Company, THEParadisePeak gold-silver-mercury districtis lo- whichput it intoproduction21/2yearslater...'"' '"•-. '" •...•......'......'•..5.., '"'. ":" PROVINCE •' "q'""""'"'""'"'•..".......'_..'•.'.•:.•':.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold-Rich, Miocene El Indio Epithermal Belt, Northern Chile a b c Roberto Oyarzun , Javier Lillo , Jorge...Juan Carlos c Universidad de La Serena d Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Published online: 06 Aug...Gold-Rich, Miocene El Indio Epithermal Belt, Northern Chile, International Geology Review, 49:9, 844-853, DOI:...Northern Chile ROBERTO OYARZUN,1 Departamento de Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas...27 December 2014 JAVIER LILLO, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry-Epithermal Transition: Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile JOHN L. MUNTEAN†,* AND MARCO T. EINAUDI Department...Refugio, Aldebarán, and La Pepa districts in the Maricunga belt of northern Chile contain advanced argillic...elevations, barite. Of the three districts studied only La Pepa has mineable quartz-alunite ledges, which contain...Pancho deposit at Refugio and the Cavancha deposit at La Pepa are telescoped systems in which banded quartz...from barren ledges at Aldebarán. 40 Ar/39Ar dates at La Pepa indicate alunite formed at least 140,000 years
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Refugio District, Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile JOHN L. MUNTEAN†,* AND MARCO T. EINAUDI Department...the porphyry gold deposits of the Maricunga belt, Chile (Vila and Sillitoe, 1991). For this reason it is...prospects and deposits in the high Andes of northern Chile (Vila and Sillitoe, 1991; Fig. 1). Zones of hydrothermally...high-sulfidation epithermal gold-(silver) deposits (La Coipa, La Pepa) and porphyry gold-(copper) deposits (Refugio...(1974), La Coipa 27 o Marte Lobo Volcan Laguna Refugio 0 20 50 0 Volcan Copiapo La Pepa PERU
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposit, Chile, and Its Position in a Porphyry Copper-GoldSystem MANUEL REYES JosdZapiola 7666-Q, La Reina...Reina,Santiago,Chile Abstract The Andacollominingdistrictis in the CoastalCordilleraof centralChile, 400...the Coastal Cordillera of central Chile, IV Region,Coquimbo Province,400 km north-northeastof Santiago(Fig...daeite flowsand pyroelastic ANDACOLLO Au DEPOSIT, CHILE 1303 rocks,with sandstone bedslocallyinterbeddedwith...2,300min thickness. Thesequence iscapped dacollo,La Hermosa,andMariposafaults(Llaumett, by a heterogeneous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines and intensity of ACCEPTED...colonialism, modern economic booms (Belich, 2009). Active mine numbers and sizes skyrocketed during two World Wars...rapidly growing number of mineral discoveries and mine establishment was partly driven by the discovery...of conquests and non-military acquisitions. But mine importance and fame did not necessarily correspond...obsolete (for example, recent reserves of a mature mine only, or IP past production for a period of time)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
explanatorytext by Bellidoandde Montreuil(1972), la republiea... E1Peregrino." and the perceptivesyntheses...Ponzoni(1980) and ei6n: Volved un instante la eabeza haeia este lado de Nieanor Parra, Poemasy Antipoemas Soleret...Paleozoieage. The 1:1,000,000 nationalmetallogenicmapof De the Andesnorth of the Bolivian orocline,while Pitcher...stratigraphic, petrologic,and tectonicsettingof Cordillerade la Costa(Fig. 1) and the entire Cordilthe ore depositsof...Llula ' "-/';'/•/•/:;:• , I .... ;-• / /."/ cHILE ' / / 'i greeswestlongitude METALLOGENIC EVOLUTION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lepanto,Philippines;Chinkuashih, Taiwan;E1Indio, Chile;PuebloViejo, DominicanRepublic).Ransome (1907) firstproposed...1986;Jannas et al., 1990),La ences),Nalesbitan,Philippines(Sillitoeet al., 1990), Coipa(Camus, 1990;Oviedoet...Spain(seeCunningham et al., 1990, otherdeposits in Chile (Sillitoe,1991);Julcani(Pe- for references). tersenet...Bulgaria(Velinovet al., 1972, 1990). shimagraben(Fig. la, inset),extendingover 130 km Thisstyleof mineralization...of the Nansatsu Grouparenotdifferentiated here. mine, where it was first describedby Tokunaga The central
Journal (issue)
MINERO, S.A. DE C.V. Industrial Minera Mexico, S. A. de C.V. Mexicana de Cobre, S.A. de C.V. $400,000...Commerce Exterieur Societe Generate Banque Nationale de Paris Bancomer, S.A. Deutsche Bank AG Banque Indosuez...Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones, S.A. Banque Indosuez Banque Nationale de Paris Credit Suisse Generale................................ .............. 6 Chile: an avalanche of investment bodes well for mining...make the utilities and their owner-the government-a de facto partner in the sector's business, having as
Book (edition)
in Fashion Brazil: miners versus garimpeiros - Chile: high altitude hazards B for Bolivia — and Battle...Appendices: I Western World Gold Supply II World Gold Mine Production III Western World Gold Supply and Demand...Michael Brown at Frankel Pollak Vinderine. And in Rio de Janeiro, Peter Rich has been a consistent helper...history, the private buying of gold had exceeded mine supply, forcing central banks to sell into the market...more the noble metal of the elite, but within the province of everybody. Yet, what appealed, of course, was
Journal (issue)
. Announced and anticipated cutbacks in primary mine output should bring the two parties together in...that theory cutting output at the Henderson primary mine by a further 40%, halting roasting at the Trollhaettan...and production from Placer Dome' s Endako primary mine expected to fall marginally to 15-million lb, the...following the idling ofits Thompson Creek primary mine late last year. This leaves Climax, accorwng to...inventory levels to reduce costs. The decline in mine output has also been accompanied by a decline in
Report (volume)
alteration and quartz-sericite-pyrite stockworks, La Espanola prospect, northwestern Altiplano, Bolivia...of gold-associated skarn from Nambija, Zamora Province, Ecuador: A reconnaissance study By Jane M. Hammarstrom...Occurrences of native gold containing silver, mercury, copper, and palladium in Lemhi County, east-central...and minor sanidine and hornblende (Morris, 1975; de Vries, 1990). The more recent works by Hannah and...Mesozoic structure of the eastern Basin and Range Province, Utah, from COCORP seismic relection data: Geology
Book (edition)
Gertrudis Echenique 30, Piso 3 Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Prof. Dr. David I. Groves Key Centre for Strategic...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Lamprophyres . Shoshonitic Lamprophyres from the Superior Province, Canada (Archaean) Introduction Nature of Mesothermal...Characteristics Andacollo, Chile . Bingham, Utah, USA . Choquelimpie, Chile . Emperor, Vitu Levu, Fiji... Superior Province, Canada . Ladolam, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea Maricunga Belt, Chile. Mount Kare
Book (edition)
Australia The cover shows an overview of the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry copper-gold deposit before the...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Arc Associations. Bajo de la Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . Bingham Copper...Copper Deposit, Utah, USA . EI Indio Gold Deposit, Chile . Twin Buttes Copper Deposit, Arizona, USA Postcollisional...Lamprophyres . Shoshonitic Lamprophyres from the Superior Province, Canada (Archaean) Introduction Nature of Mesothermal
Book
. . . 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4 4.2 Roman Province ~taly): Example from a Continental Arc Setting... . . . . . . . . Bajo de la Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . ....Utah, USA . . . . . . . . . El Indio Gold Deposit, Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . Twin Buttes Copper Deposit... . Shoshonitic Lamprophyres from the Superior Province, Canada (Archaean) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Andacollo, Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bajo de la Alumbrera, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Book (edition)
BOSTON l HEIDELBERG l LONDON l NEW YORK PARIS l SAN DIEGO l SAN FRANCISCO l SINGAPORE l SYDNEY l l OXFORD...Canada of British Columbia, M.G. Aylmore, John de Laeter Centre, Faculty of Science and Engineering...edition. Dry-stacked tailing, such as used at La Coipa (Chile), has additional benefits of cyanide recycling...Australia and is currently extending to applications in Chile and Peru. An important lesson from all of the major...alternative lixiviants, water management, arsenic and mercury management, gold recovery from e-waste, and emerging
Book (edition)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting... . . . . . 6.4.1 Bajo de La Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . 6.4.2 Bingham.... . . . . . . . . 6.4.3 El Indio Gold Deposit, Chile . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.4 Cripple Creek Gold Deposit...8.5 Shoshonitic Lamprophyres from the Superior Province, Canada (Archean) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....H2O, CO2, and S. Light rare earth elements (e.g. La, Ce, Nd). They are part of the lanthanides (atomic
Book (edition)
Exploration Team—Target Generation QPX Chile Las Condes, Santiago Chile David I. Groves Department of Geology...new data and references from Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and...Billiton in Perth, Singapore and Santiago, and QPX Chile in Santiago for encouraging the completion and revision...Zhiming Yang, Andi Zhang and Lin Zhang. Santiago, Chile Perth, Australia Daniel Müller David I. Groves.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting
 
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