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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Coipa mine, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:637205
Long-form Identifier:1:3:637205:7
GUID (UUID V4):8bcba61e-ef7f-4336-ad3a-c9e6934c6bf9
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
24.6km (15.3 miles) Potrerillos Mine, Potrerillos, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
26.7km (16.6 miles) Jerónimo Mine, Potrerillos, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
51.0km (31.7 miles) El Salvador Mine, El Salvador mining district, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
63.8km (39.6 miles) San Samuel Mine ("San Manuel Mine"), Carrera Pinto, Cachiyuyo de Llampos mining district, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
67.7km (42.1 miles) Dulcinea de Llampos Mine, Cachiyuyo de Llampos mining district, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
70.8km (44.0 miles) Marte Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
84.8km (52.7 miles) Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
97.7km (60.7 miles) Capitana 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)
located in the Frontal Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, near the present-day northern limit...Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, ~8 km east of the border with Chile (lat 28°26'S, long 69°32'W)...Josemaría deposit was discovered in 2004 by Desarrollo de Prospectos Mineros S.A. (Deprominsa), the Argentinian...70° 68°W 69°40’ o PERU S BOLIVIA er u - Chile Tambo Alturas ch Los Azules El Altar - Piuquenes...M og ote sf au lt Refugio CHILE belt A R G E N T I N A Lobo-Marte La Pepa Taguas Pascua-Lama dio
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RICHARD C. LORSO• MineraFMCLtda.,La Capitanfa163,LasCondes, Santiago, Chile Abstract The ParadisePeakgold-silver-mercury...similarporphyrygolddepositsin the Maricunga belt, northern Chile. An episodeof detachmentfaultingaffectedthe Pa...'"' '"•-. '" •...•......'......'•..5.., '"'. ":" PROVINCE •' "q'""""'"'""'"'•..".......'_..'•.'.•:.•':....left. texturesuggests a supergeneorigin for the gypsum. The detachment faultstruncatethe pre- to synmineral...reliablebecause the smallerlozenge-shaped rock massesin the de- 2). The determination reasonable agesobtainedusing
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)
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...it was formerly exploited in places (e.g., La Coipa, Chile; El Queva, Argentina; Sillitoe 1975). However
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)
Porphyry Gold-Copper Deposit, Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile* RICHARD H. SILLITOE,1,† JUSTIN TOLMAN,2,** AND...the Maricunga gold-silver-copper belt of northern Chile, was discovered in 2007 beneath postmineral cover...28°S in the high volcanic Andes of the Atacama Region, northern Chile (Fig. 1). The belt, some 200 km long...Argentina Chile Antofagasta LA COIPA Fig. 2 PUREN Copiapó Maricunga belt CASPICHE -27° Salar de Maricunga...VELADERO EL INDIO -30° -30° El Indio belt LOBO LA PEPA VOLCAN PANTANILLOS Santiago -70° -27°30’
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stratabound (Manto-Type) Copper Deposits of Central Chile a b c Marcos Zentilli , Francisco Munizaga ,... Departamento de Geologia , Universidad de Chile , Casilla 13518, C21, Santiago, Chile c Cuesta Research...Disputada Las Condes S.A. , Casilla 16178, Santiago, Chile e Department of Earth Sciences , Dalhousie University...Stratabound (Manto-Type) Copper Deposits of Central Chile, International Geology Review, 39:1, 1-21, DOI:...2014 Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 13518, C21, Santiago, Chile MILTON C. GRAVES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
productsof magmatic-hydrothermal and hydromag- the Cabeza de Vaca district (Sillitoe and Sawkins, matic processesand...esulfidelead-zincde- recorded. The San Antonio de La Huerta pipe in posits, unconformity-typeuranium...type mineralization,CopperCreek (Grimour,1977) Pedro de Cachiyuyodistrict (Sillitoe and Sawkins, andKidston(R...SanAntoniode tion for mineralizedbrecciapipes.Knownexamples La Huerta pipe (R. H. Sillitoe,unpub.rept., 1975), range...volcanics Mexico Washington dist., Sonora, Mexico La Colorada, Zacatecas, Andesitic,latitic q- trachytic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pu na Antofagasta 25° Salta SB 350 300 Chile 250 100 Argentina 150 Sierras 30° PC Annu...Library on 06/25/13. For personal use only. 575 La Paz Pampeanas 75° 70° 65° Figure 1 Location...Puna of northwest Argentina and adjoining parts of Chile. These areas differ in topography, magmatism, and...Beni Basin Altiplano Altiplano Basin Basin Atacama Atacama Basin Basin Puna Puna Santa Bárbara System...0 400 800 1200 1600 2000 2400 75° 70° Chile location of section 65° Argentina 30° Bolivia
Report (volume)
Portuguese Pyrite Belt By David J. Grimes and Delfim de Carvalho...........................................transfer that technology to other users. Grimes and de Carvalho (chapter G) tested a variety of exploration...6 Rhyolites from El Rechuelos Formation. 7 San Diego Canyon ash flows from precursor Bandelier Tuff (Smith...g., Guadalupe Box, Soda Dam) and from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains have relatively unradiogenic Pb...266. Turbeville, B.N., and Self, S., 1988, San Diego Canyon ignimbrites Pre-Bandelier tuff explosive
Book (volume)
existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....Iran ian P o rp h y ry C u-M o-A u D eposits Brent LA. Mclnnes, Noreen J. Evans, Frank Q, Fut Steve Garwin...lm alyk (K a rm ak y r-D a ln e e ) and S au k b u la k C u-A u P o rp h y ry System s, U zbekistan IgorM...the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology...localised in the U.S. “South-west”, and in northern Chile and southern Peru,and were Cu-Mo orebodies (Gilmour
Book
present and past.20 Primary evaporite salts. 22 Gypsum beds.□ 23 Halite beds (chevrons and crusts).26...stylolites.50 Evaporites as uplift indicators.51 Fibrous gypsum and halite (satinspar).52 Saline clay authigenesis...salinas of Australia.222 Carbonate salinas.223 Gypsum salinas .□ 227 Halite salinas. 230 Coastal salinas...Caves in salt karst. 500 Gypsum caves. 501 Phreatic gypsum caves.502 Vadose gypsum caves.504 Miocene karst...Spain.504 Modern karst in Cretaceous gypsum, Texas.506 Modern gypsum karst in Saudi Arabia.508 Halite Caves
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...and CopperGold Deposits at Los Pelambres, Central Chile José Perelló, Richard H. Sillitoe, Constantino...of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known Concentration...Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern Chile Geology of...Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco Antônio Delinardo
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started................................... 494 Cornel E.J. de Ronde Alteration in the area of the Kristineberg...textures and new sulphur isotope data of the Cerro de Maimón VMS deposit ores, Dominican Republic .......Ahola Occurrence of gold (electrum) in the Lousal mine, Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal ............................................... 564 Daniel P. S. de Oliveira, Carlos J. P. Rosa, Fernanda M. G. Guimarães
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...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...Tertiary igneous rocks, eastern Basin and Range Province, western Utah, eastern Nevada, and vicinity, U
Journal (issue)
example, its Tasiast solar project at the Tasiast mine in Mauritania is currently under construction and...GHG emissions from the power plant over life of mine. Annualised GHG emissions reductions are estimated...for 100% renewable power in place at our La Coipa mine in Chile. As to our fleets, we are in discussions...with other improvements throughout the mill. At the mine, haul routes were also re-designed and optimised...completed in September 2022. In the fourth quarter, the mine saved over 60,000 litres of diesel fuel, and a reduction
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
Book
447 467 491 Company Index 503 Tables: World Mine Production of Gold, Silver and Base Metals 5A2...Mining OFFICES: 5011 Meadowood Way Paradise Peak Mine Suite 300 (100% FMC Gold) * Sales Reno, Nevada...Elko, Nevada (303) 292-7500 Royal Mountain King Mine (100% FMC Gold) Copperopolis, California Beartrack...help modernise that country's mining industry. Chile was a significant recruit to democracy in the past...government, there is a rush of mining companies to Chile, making it the developing country most in favour
Report (issue)
VMSDEPOSITS:POTENTIAL FORMAGMA TICCONTRIBUTIONS CI.J. de Rollcle ...........................................involvedin modellingthe mass-balancerw,f.atiomhipt la assimilation-aystallimion pronms The .......-;,;...Effects Wholesaleor bulk assimilation,whether by De.._. family of curves in Figure 3b complete fusion...the 9 J.IC.lhmell«al. Tablel. Modal.. ,....,. (la aole %) of modelrocksusedin caJculationsgiven with...part, why many of the larpll porphyrydeposits in Chile areassociatedwilb6e least contaminatodmagmas(Sillitoe
Book
. . 5.3.6 The El Indio-Pascua Wpithermal Belt, Chile . . . . . . . . . 5.3.7 Epithermal Systems in the...Deposit, Abitibi-Wawa Greenstone Belt, Superior Province, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . 992 9.7.2 Central Australian Heat Flow Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995 9.8 An Unusual Amagmatic...deposit, ore deposit, mineral occurrence, prospect, mine, reserves and resources are familiar, but more rigorous...taken from hydrothermal iron oxides (iron pods of de Ronde et al. 1997) suggest a calculated oceanic surface
Report (volume)
IN EER, eddessisa CS acaon dated: Vv SRO Ler La Os a A vi RO, 1 Epithermal Gold Deposits:...seston « sistent orer0x.calelenll SME ae os pA Oe de pl eae 155 ee 181 Metallogeny of the Central...an eae eer 213 Mineralizations at the Rozalia Mine, HodruSa WU cia ORK oderay UPrcicn oa Saly, and...Stiavnica stratovolcano central zone and Rozalia Mine 18.30-19.30 Dinner 19.30-22.00 Optional visit to...groups: 7.00 - 11.30 Underground visit of the Rozalia mine; disseminated base metal mineralization, base metal
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...socioenvironmental impact through the entire life cycle of the mine, it is important to aim at getting it “right the
Book (volume)
. . . . . . . . . . . . .... .. . 120 Cemex SA de CV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Champion... . . . . 162 Corporaci6n Internacional de A viaci6n, S.A. de C.V. (Cintra) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1676.... . . . . . . . . . 216 Ford Motor Company, S.A. de C.V. . . . . . . 219 Fred Meyer, Inc. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sears Roebuck de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. . .. Seattle FilmWorks, Inc. . . . ...under such names as "Alerte a Malibu," "Guardianes de la Bahia," and "Mishmar Ha-mifratz. " At home, All
 
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