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Quartz from
Quebrada Blanca Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quebrada Blanca Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:534030
Long-form Identifier:1:3:534030:9
GUID (UUID V4):c0458c8e-9e87-43b2-a0da-b4cc89f33d9f
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
7.5km (4.6 miles) Monctezuma vein, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
10.2km (6.3 miles) La Grande vein, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
11.3km (7.0 miles) Rosario Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
17.8km (11.1 miles) Ujina Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
55.9km (34.7 miles) Lolón Main Mine, Cerro Challacollo, Pozo Almonte, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
58.2km (36.2 miles) San Pablo de Napa mine, San Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí, Bolivia
59.4km (36.9 miles) El Desierto mine, San Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí, Bolivia
59.7km (37.1 miles) Maria Eugenia mine, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí, Bolivia
73.4km (45.6 miles) Ollague Volcano, Nor Lípez Province, Potosí, Bolivia
80.3km (49.9 miles) Pabellón geothermal field, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
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on the western margin of Gondwana: Collahuasi area, Northern Chile Francisco Munizaga a , Victor Maksaev...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile Research School of Earth Sciences...Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi, SCM, Pedro Lagos 1090, Iquique, Chile d Research School of Earth...northern Chile mostly consists of late Paleozoic to Early Triassic felsic igneous rocks (Collahuasi Group)...supercontinent. This igneous suite crops out in the Collahuasi area and forms the backbone of most of the high
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Related Copper-Silver Veins in the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON J. MASTERMAN,†,* DAVID R...JOHN L. WALSHE, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102,...Compañia Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM, Pedro Lagos 1090, Iquique, Chile Abstract The Rosario and...porphyry copper mineralization at the nearby Quebrada Blanca deposit, constitute the third-largest concentration...associated with the Domeyko fault system in northern Chile. At Rosario, fault-hosted Cu-Ag–rich massive sulfide
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Chemistry as an Exploration Tool in the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile Michael J. Baker,1,2,† Jamie J. Wilkinson...Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), an Australian Research Council...Australia 6005, Australia Abstract The Collahuasi district of northern Chile hosts several late Eocene-early...Cu-Mo deposits, including Rosario, Ujina, and Quebrada Blanca deposits, and associated high-sulfidation epithermal...rocks of the upper Paleozoic to Lower Triassic Collahuasi Group, which experienced lower greenschist facies
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Porphyry and Cu-Ag-Au Epithermal Veins, Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON J. MASTERMAN,†,* DAVID R...JOHN L. WALSHE, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102...Cu-Mo-Ag deposit is located in the Collahuasi district of northern Chile. It comprises high-grade Cu-Ag-(Au)...the core of a porphyry Cu-Mo orebody. Rosario has mining reserves of 1,094 million metric tons (Mt) at 1...percent copper occurs in the district at the nearby Ujina and Quebrada Blanca porphyry deposits. The Rosario
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Facies Metamorphic Terrain of the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile—Implications of Petrographic and...London SW1Y 5AN, United Kingdom Abstract The Collahuasi district is a porphyry Cu-Mo subprovince located on...plateau of northern Chile. Late Eocene-early Oligocene mineralization in the district involved hydrothermal...alteration of the upper Paleozoic to Lower Triassic Collahuasi Group granodiorites, diorites, andesites, dacites...metamorphic mineral assemblages. Our results from Collahuasi indicate that petrographic criteria can distinguish
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(1) Advanced Mining Technology Center, Universidad de Chile. Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile. (2) Departamento...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. (3) College of Earth, Ocean and...at depths greater than 1,000 m (e.g., Superior district; Manske and Paul, 2002), as well as new drilling...concealed areas (Sillitoe and Thompson, 2006). Mining and exploration of deposits becomes increasingly...central Andes, are enough to sustain underground mining. The exploration of deep concealed targets is very
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of Northern Chile Preface FRANCISCO CAMUS † Codelco-Chile, Huérfanos 1270, Santiago, Chile AND JOHN H...University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Introduction Chile is known worldwide as the site of one of the largest...production of more than 50 Mt of fine copper. Currently, Chile annually produces about 4.6 Mt of fine copper that...potential has triggered numerous international mining companies to concentrate their exploration efforts...efforts in the Central Andes with emphasis in Chile. During the past 25 years, exploration expenditures
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Cu–Mo mineralization in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile: new constraints from the Toki cluster...the Chuquicamata–Radomiro Tomic mines in northern Chile. These prospects occur in an area of 5×6 km and...porphyries that intruded andesites and dacites of the Collahuasi Group and intrusions of the Fortuna–Los Picos...Sericitic alteration is relatively restricted to late quartz–pyrite veins (D-type veins). Previous K–Ar geochronology...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile e-mail: fbarrapantoja@ing.uchile.cl F.
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University with a B.Sc. Honours. He completed his PhD in Mining Geology in 1979 at Imperial College, London. His...contributions to economic geology. Stints with Palabora Mining Company, JCI and Anglovaal added to Ross’ southern...After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology
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................. 61 , The Mankayan Mineral District, .Luzon Philippines. Artemio F Disini, Bruce M...Radomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile. Patricio Cuadra and Francisco Cam us.............Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit,Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel Durdn andAquiles Gonzales...world’s largest mining operations and are the cornerstone of many of the worlds great mining houses. As such
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Council (ARC) Research Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain, University of Tasmania, Private Bag...Hefei, Anhui 230009, China 8Resolution Copper Mining, P.O. Box 1944, Superior, Arizona 85173, USA Abstract...Resolution porphyry Cu-Mo deposit in the Superior district of Arizona is hosted in Proterozoic and Paleozoic...phyllic and advanced argillic alteration. The district was disrupted by Tertiary Basin and Range extension...world’s major porphyry copper provinces (e.g., Chile, Arizona, Papua New Guinea), porphyry exploration
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ore-bearing continental igneous setting: Collahuasi Formation, northern Chile R.G.A. Baker a,b,c, M. Rehkämper...porphyry Cu deposits in the Collahuasi Formation of the Central Andes in northern Chile. The igneous lithologies...chalcophile affinity in the continental crust of the Collahuasi Formation, but behaves as a lithophile element...by partitioning of Tl+ into K+-bearing phases. Collahuasi samples with propylitic alteration features,...36 rock samples from the Collahuasi Formation in the Andes of northern Chile. This formation hosts worldclass
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uncommon type of mineralization in northeastern Chile Darı́o Chinchilla, Lorena Ortega, Rubén Piña,...uncommon type of mineralization in northeastern Chile, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...uncommon type of mineralization in northeastern Chile T Darío Chinchilla a, b*, Lorena Ortega a, Rubén...(CEGA), Universidad de NU b Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. Department of Geosciences, Virginia...Resources Plc. Compañía minera Paguanta, Santiago de Chile, Chile. D Abstract TE The Patricia ore deposit
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(CEGA), FCFM, D Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile Department of Earth Sciences...Barra Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Chile fbarrapantoja@ing.uchile.cl Phone: 56-2-29784532...IOCG clan in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, comprises the PT iron oxide-Cu-Au sensu stricto...deposits constitute the second source of copper in Chile, after porphyry Cu-Mo systems, whereas SC IOAs...that the Cretaceous Manto-type Cu belt of central Chile extends further north than previously thought. Additionally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Chuquicamata Mine: A Progress Report GUILLERMO OSSANDÓN C., CODELCO-Chile, Gerencia Exploraciones...Santiago, Chile ROBERTO FRÉRAUT C., CODELCO-Chile, Superintendencia Geología, Chuquicamata, Chile LEWIS... DARRYL D. LINDSAY, SRK Consultores, Santiago, Chile AND MARCOS ZENTILLI Department of Earth Sciences...Canada B3H 3J5 Abstract Chuquicamata, in northern Chile, is the world’s greatest copper orebody. It was...preserved. It is accompanied by granular quartz and quartz-K feldspar veinlets, which contain only trace
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that the majority of large mineral deposits and mining districts are situated in the outcrops of these...radiometric ages of mineral deposits. Sixteen mining districts in Chile, and 24 in Argentina, were attributed...to the seismically active fracture zones. Major mining districts and individual large mineral deposits...zones roughly parallel to the axis of the Peru-Chile trench (Carachas-Portillo, Choquelimpie, Iquique...relatively restricted domains of the Earth's crust. The mining districts with dated mineral deposits are arranged
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of Mineralization in the Indio Muerto District, El Salvador, Chile LEWIS B. GUSTAFSON,† 5320 Cross Creek...89511 WALTER ORQUERA, CODELCO-Chile, Division Salvador, El Salvador, Chile MICHAEL MCWILLIAMS, Department...AND MARCELLO MENDEZ CODELCO-Chile, Division Salvador, El Salvador, Chile Abstract The porphyries that...that formed copper deposits in the Indio Muerto district include both 44 Ma rhyolitic subvolcanic intrusions...intruding host andesite at the northeast end of the district. Very weak Cu but much stronger Mo mineralization
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LETTER HYPOGENE ALUNITE FROM THE EL SALVADOR DISTRICT, CHILE, INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR A BLIND PORPHYRY COPPER...bodies from the El Salvador porphyry copper district of Chile were recently dated. One alunite sample over...latite intrusion. Two other samples associated with quartz-alunite replacement of rhyolite, ~750 m southwest...43 Ma. Porphyry copper ores in the El Salvador district formed at about the same time as porphyry intrusions...associated with ~80% of the known copper ore of the district; they record waning stages of magmatism at 42
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of the Bolivian tin province. The average boron content in melt inclusions of quartz phenocrysts from tin...Departamento de GeologõÂ a, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 13518, Santiago, Chile H.-J. Schneider Ferdinand-Lehner-Strasse...copper porphyry deposits of northern and central Chile, and the vein and porphyry deposits of the Andean...developed in the time interval of 43±31 Ma (Collahuasi/Quebrada Blanca, Chuquicamata, La Escondida, El Salvador)...the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia, in tourmaline-quartz-sericite and chlorite The whole-rock boron measurements
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Geologic Evolution of the Escondida Area, Northern Chile: A Model for Spatial and Temporal Localization of...and Chimborazo (Cordillera de Domeyko, northern Chile). The purpose of this study was to examine the regional...magmatic setting of this preeminent porphyry Cu district for evidence of features or processes that might...throughout much of the porphyry belt of northern Chile. Geochemically, they are I-type in character, but... Introduction NORTHERN CHILE is the world’s premier porphyry copper district, hosting several major deposits
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in the El Abra Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile: Implications for Long-Lived Multiple-Event Magmatic-Hydrothermal...Universidad de Concepción, Concepción CP 4030000, Chile 2 Instituto GEA, Casilla 160-C, Universidad de...de Concepción, Concepción CP 4030000, Chile 3 Department 4 Superintendencia of Earth Sciences, University...Contractual Minera El Abra, Calama CP 1390000, Chile Abstract Zircon LA-ICP-MS and CA-TIMS and molybdenite...geochronology for the El Abra porphyry copper deposit (Chile) document a ~8.6 Ma protracted magmatic-hydrothermal
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Cerro Colorado Hypogene Protore, I Región, Northern Chile FARHAD BOUZARI,†,* AND ALAN H. CLARK Department...Cerro Colorado porphyry Cu (-Mo) deposit, I Región, Chile, exhibits features not commonly documented in such...with decreasing depth, quartz-albite, sericite-chlorite-clay (smectite), quartz-sericite-clay, and an...The subsequent Transitional-stage phyllic (i.e., quartz-sericite-pyrite ± tourmaline) alteration was associated...primarily responsible for the formation of the quartz-sericite-clay and shallow advanced argillic alteration
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
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http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tigr20 El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and...Mineria , Avenida Santa Maria, Santiago, 0104, Chile b U.S. Geological Survey , 345 Middlefield Road...Mineria , Avenida Santa Maria, Santiago, 0104, Chile d Australian National University , Canberra, Australia...Orlando Rivera & C. Mark Fanning (1997) El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and...& Son, Inc. All rights reserved. El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and
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geological models and creative human reasoning. As metal mining is an economic activity made possible by geological...preoccupation is also ubiquitous in geosciences and mining where it sometimes overlaps with classification...of numerical data. Organized and localized metal mining, as opposed to opportunity collecting of naturally...the highly selective mining soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines...mines and intensity of ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT mining fluctuated with politics and economics of the day, increasing
 
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