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Andalusite from
El Salvador Mine, El Salvador mining district, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Andalusite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andalusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Salvador Mine, El Salvador mining district, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:609521
Long-form Identifier:1:3:609521:5
GUID (UUID V4):5e72bca1-59a5-4a63-98df-8eb2e9ac5b4c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AucusT, 1975 The PorphyryCopperDepositat E1 Salvador,Chile LEWIS B. GUSTAFSON AND JOHN P. HUNT Abstract...copper deposit at E1 Salvador culminated volcanic activity in the Indio Muerto district. Host rocks for the...porphyry series. However, rhyolitic volcanismin the district was clearly more felsic than younger granodioritic...rutile857 No. 5 The PorphyryCopperDepositat E1 Salvador,Chile Fig. 1. Aerial view of Cerro Indio Muerto... Volcanic peaks of the high Cordillera,the Salar de Pedernales,and low hills underlain by folded Mesozoicsedimentsand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Graduate School of International Resource Sciences, Mining Museum of Akita University, Akita, Japan Abstract...mineralization in two representative porphyry systems (El Salvador, Chile, and Grasberg, Indonesia) was examined to...and host rocks during potassic alteration at El Salvador and Grasberg includes (i) reduction of SO42−...exsolution from the intrusive magmas. Keywords: El Salvador, Grasberg, Japan, porphyry Cu deposit, potassic...International Resource Sciences, Akita University, Mining Musium of Akita University, Osawa, Tegata, Akita
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EXPRESS LETTER HYPOGENE ALUNITE FROM THE EL SALVADOR DISTRICT, CHILE, INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR A BLIND PORPHYRY...late breccia bodies from the El Salvador porphyry copper district of Chile were recently dated. One alunite...44 to 43 Ma. Porphyry copper ores in the El Salvador district formed at about the same time as porphyry...associated with ~80% of the known copper ore of the district; they record waning stages of magmatism at 42...porphyry copper deposits in the remote El Salvador district of Chile began with Old Camp in 1951 and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zonation at the Surface over the El Salvador Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chile YASUSHI WATANABE† Institute for...alteration minerals exposed at the surface of the El Salvador porphyry copper deposit. A total of 276 samples...(1) muscovite-andalusite with trace diaspore (including some areas rich in andalusite) and (2) muscovite...500 m away from the granodiorite porphyry, and andalusite-rich zones are located near the brecciated margin...overprint overlaps the contact of the muscovite-andalusite and muscovite zones, and occurs mainly above
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
below the Porphyry Copper Orebodyat E1Salvador,Chile LEWIS B. GUSTAFSON 5320 Cross Creek Lane, Reno,...89511 ANDJORGE QUIROGAG.* Codelco-Chile,DivisionE1Teniente,Rancagua,Chile Abstract Three diamonddrill holes...holes,angledbelow the lowesthaulagelevel at E1 Salvador,have doubledthe verticalexposureof the depositand...haloswith green sericite,alkali feldspar,and andalusite,cut B veins.They are older than relatively sparseD...veins.Tracesof corundumand cordieriteoccurwith andalusite. Overallabundanceof sulfide,sulfate,andK feldspardiminishwith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Colorado Porphyry Copper Deposit, I Región, Northern Chile FARHAD BOUZARI† AND ALAN H. CLARK Department of...the initiation of the Incaic orogeny in northern Chile. An age of 35.26 ± 0.68 (2σ) Ma for alunite associated...Evidence from Cerro Colorado and elsewhere in northern Chile (e.g., Spence and Angelina) confirms that Paleocene...emplaced along the Domeyko fault system (e.g., El Salvador) may similarly have been upgraded during the...Cenozoic supergene metallogenic epoch in northern Chile, ca. 20 or even 30 m.y. in duration, which attained
Report (issue)
Copper Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits..................porphyry copper deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central...the date of a study, considering the extent of mining at that date. At Batu Hijau, Indonesia, Arif and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ideal case, to assist in the planning of selective mining. Introduction T H E ECONOMIC GEOLOGY of polluting...processes operate. Environmental standards for the mining and smelting industries, however, are being improved...Porphyry copper deposits account for 60% of the world's mine production of copper and constitute 80% of ore reserves...X X Chile 45. Cerro Blanco 46. Chuquicamata SAI X SAI S X 48. El Salvador SA SA 49. El Teniente...(Samame Boggio, 1980), Tintaya (Samame Boggio, 1980) Chile: Andacollo (Llaumett P. et al., 1975), 2 Los Pelambres
Report (issue)
Figure 5.--Hydrothermal alteration at the Brewer mine, 21 Chesterfield County, South Carolina Figure 6...from drill hole 8, 13.4 — 19.5 meters depth, Brewer mine area, South Carolina Table 2a.--Seimquantitative...analyses from U.S. Bureau of Mines drill holes, Brewer mine area, South Carolina Table 3.--Analyses of hard...hard rock with fresh pyrite from the Brewer mine area, South Carolina Table 4.--Analyses of 12 soil samples...bodies are even more aluminous with abundant andalusite and topaz and traces of diaspore. These deposits
Report (volume)
-------5. Hydrothermal alteration at the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, South Carolina ----------...from drill hole 8, 13.4-19.5 meters depth, Brewer mine area, South Carolina --------------------------... of hard rock with fresh pyrite from the Brewer mine area, South Carolina --------------------------...samples from U.S. Bureau of Mines drill holes, Brewer mine area, South Carolina --------------------------...bodies are even more aluminous with abundant andalusite and topaz and traces of diaspore. These deposits
Report (issue)
Raul Sal as 0., Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Santiago, Chile Open-File Report 87- 634 1987...deposits associated with stratovolcanos in Bolivia and Chile ........................ 5. 12A 15A Distribution...northwestern Argentina, western Boliva, northern Chile, and southern Peru, are potential targets for hydrothermal...central Andean region of southern Peru, northern Chile, western Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina. The...Are'q:u:|jjjj|:;:| Morococaia 'Tv5 Los ^ ^ Frailes 20 : CHILE Antofagasta 24° 24' Salta Tucuman 289 28'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in magmatic arc settings. At the regional and district scales, the occurrence of many deposits in belts...central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003)...Los BroncesRío Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro de Pasco & Colquijirca Choquelimpie...Cerro Colorado Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri Chuquicamata dist. Koloula Frieda...Wafi-Golpu Gaby El Salvador Potrerillos Marte & Caspiche Taca Taca Bajo Bajo de la Alumbrera (Farallón
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SulfurIsotopes in thePorphyryCopperDeposit at E1Salvador,Chile C•:l•US W. FmL•) •N•) LEW•S B. GUST•FSON Abstract...representativeof mineralization in time and spaceat E1 Salvador. The hypogenesulfates(mean +10.75o; range +7...temperature,and chemical condidepositat E1 Salvador,Chile, by Gustarsonand tions at various stagesof...Many of the mineralsusedin this sulfur Muerto district. A variety of geologicarguments isotope, investigation...porphyry-type environments. Our interpretations of the E1 Salvador data have benefited enormouslyby the recent contributionsof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
north-northeast–trending, high-grade zone had pre-mining dimensions of 1,500 m strike, >300 m vertical,...(EDM) halos of sericite, K-feldspar, biotite, andalusite, and local corundum containing disseminated ...Nash, 1976; Eastoe, 1978; Bodnar, 1995; Heinrich el al., 1999; Ulrich et al., 1999, 2002; Audetat et...between grades of copper and gold relative to district structure, vein types, and alteration in the context...in grade across intrusive contacts, we augmented mine blast hole and diamond drill hole assays with assays
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Atacama segment of the South American Andes, northern Chile (26°15'-27°25'S) Received:...magmatism and the rich ore deposits of northern Chile have been the focus of numerous studies. Significant...feature of the geology of this part of northern Chile is the existence of n o r t h - south to north-east-...alteration and cama segment - Andes - northern Chile mineralization (Baker and Guilbert, 1987; Colley...Introduction (Fig. 1): (1) along the Atacama Fault System; (2) along the Inca de Oro Belt; (3) along the West
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Bellingham, Washington 98225 Abstract Mine exposures and deep drilling reveal that the Butte...quartzsulfide veinlets with biotite-K-feldspar-sericite-andalusite alteration envelopes. The biotite-dominant alteration...types—from high-temperature biotite-feldspar-andalusite to lowtemperature sericite-pyrite-quartz and...and in equilibrium with biotite, feldspar, and andalusite. It is transformed upon cooling as disproportionation...largely overthrown by O and H isotope data from El Salvador (Watanabe and Hedenquist, 2001), Far Southeast
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...sericite-chlorite-clay (smectite), quartz-sericite-clay, and andalusite-diaspore-pyrophyllite assemblages. The deposit...undumortieritized tourmaline veinlets cutting andalusite-diaspore assemblages confirms that much of the...exemplified by the hypogene protore of the El Salvador deposit, Chile, comprehensively documented by Gustafson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hugo Dummett Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Oyu Tolgoi District, Mongolia BAT-ERDENE KHASHGEREL,1,† ROBERT O....porphyry Cu-Au deposits within the Oyu Tolgoi mineral district, Mongolia, occur in a northnortheast–trending...and is characterized by minerals that include andalusite, corundum, diaspore, residual quartz, alunite...deposits (Lowell and Guilbert, 1970), notably at El Salvador, Chile (Gustafson and Hunt, 1975), concluded that...studies—Lepanto-Far Southeast, Philippines; El Salvador and El Teniente, Chile; Panguna, PNG; Endeavour 26, Australia;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Episodic magmatic-hydrothermal activity in the district is characterized by several stages of advanced...characterized by the presence of various amounts of andalusite, pyrophyllite, kaolinite-dickite, corundum, diaspore...Summitville, USA, La Granja, Peru, La Escondida, Chile (STOFFREGEN & ALPERS 1987), Valence Mountains and...flows and domes dominate the western part of the district. Less altered volcanics plot in the subalkaline...are best developed in the western part of the district mainly within volcanic rocks. Colloform banded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PII S0016-7037(98)00261-0 K-feldspar-muscovite-andalusite-quartz-brine phase equilibria: An experimental...with K-feldspar-muscovite-quartz and muscovite-andalusite-quartz was determined for pressures and temperatures...muscovite 1 3 quartz 1 KCl and muscovite 1 HCl 5 1.5 andalusite 1 1.5 quartz 1 1.5 H2O 1 KCl. For the K-feld...experiments), respectively. For the muscovite-andalusite-quartzbrine equilibrium, log10 (KCl/HCl) 5 0...stability fields in the K-feldspar-muscovite-andalusite-quartz system shift to lower KCl/HCl values with
Report (volume)
____________ ----- _______________ .._______ History of mining ____ --------- _________________________ -----__...Honduras-------------~----------------------------------- El Quetzal mine_______________________________________..._________ Siria mine ________________________ ------------- __ ----Los Hornitos mine ______ ;_______...mine____________________________________ La Uni6n mine ________________ -----------------------(}uatem...Tablas deposit_____________________________________ El Carrizal prospect ___ --------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sericite-clayalteration serieite-kaolinite, andalusite, anddiaspore. The quartz content of the quartz...flank. The rocks have published,one from El Salvador,Chile (Gustarson beenmetasomatically alteredin varyingdegrees...intenselyfractured and brecrecognized: andalusite-quartz, andalusite-pyrophyl-ciated,but no evidencewas found...found of rockshaving lite-quartz, andalusite-sericite-quartz, diaspore-py- beenlifted or tilted. The...mostexposures of the quartzfeldsparporphyry, rare. Andalusite oftenshowsreplacement by pyro- a stockworkexistswith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
equilibrium brine compositions in the K-feldspar–andalusite/sillimanite–quartz–brine system (the brine was...temperature range of the experiments whereas andalusite was only stable at temperatures <750 °C, sillimanite...stable Al2SiO5 polymorph at 750 °C. The K-feldspar–andalusite/sillimanite–quartz–brine equilibrium boundaries...pressure to 50, 65 and 80 MPa. The K-feldspar–andalusite–quartz–brine phase boundaries at 600 °C and 50...of dominantly K-feldspar ± biotite ± sericite. Andalusite is not as abundant as K-feldspar in these alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blanco-Los Bronces porphyry Cu–Mo cluster, Central Chile: new U–Pb (SHRIMP II) and Re–Os geochronology and...mines in the north, through the Don Luis mine, to the Sur Sur mine, La Americana and Los Sulfatos in the...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Casilla 12518, Santiago, Chile e-mail:...Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, Divisíon Andina, Sta. Teresa 513, Los Andes, Chile M. Fanning Research...geochronology . Central Andes . Chile Introduction The Río Blanco-Los Bronces mining district, covering a 15 km 2
 
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