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Limonite from
Aguilar Mine, El Aguilar, Humahuaca Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Wet Chemical
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Galena3 photos of Limonite associated with Galena at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Aguilar Mine, El Aguilar, Humahuaca Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:780938
Long-form Identifier:1:3:780938:5
GUID (UUID V4):467fe230-9c26-4e84-913c-875b812fbf39
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
40.7km (25.3 miles) Purísima Mine, Abra Pampa, Cochinoca Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina
66.5km (41.3 miles) Rangel mine, Rangel mining district, Sierra de Cobres, La Poma Department, Salta Province, Argentina
71.5km (44.4 miles) La Esperanza Mine, Iruya Department, Salta Province, Argentina
84.6km (52.6 miles) Sierra de Cobres, La Poma Department, Salta Province, Argentina
95.7km (59.5 miles) Chinchillas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun . . .... . . . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Oolitic Stratabound Iron Ores in the Silurian of Argentina and Bolivia M.-A. Boso and C. R. Monaldi . . ...The "La Helvecia" Pb, Zn, and Barite Deposit, Argentina A. Brodtkorb and M. K. de Brodtkorb . . . . ..... . . . 187 The Barite Deposits of Canota, Argentina M. K. de Brodtkorb, I. B. A. Schalamuk, S. Ametrano
Report (volume)
Coal Resources of Trinidad-Aguilar Area Las Animas and Huerfano Counties, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...BULLETIN 1072-G Coal Resources of Trinidad-Aguilar Area Las Animas and Huerfano Counties, Colorado...PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1959 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRED A. SEATON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...volume] PLATE 10. 11. Geologic map of the Trinidad-Aguilar area. Generalized stratigraphic sections of the...HARBOUR AND G. H. DIXON ABSTRACT The Trinidad-Aguilar part of the Trinidad coal field lies in southeastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A.,CarmenSylva2449, Santiago,Chile AND ANGELO AGUILAR Minera Homestake,Chile S.A.,Pedrode Valdivia 0193...explorationgeologistsfor about 100 years. After the discoveryof the El Indio gold deposit, about300 km southofLa Coipa,in...and 6 oz/metricton (93.3 and 186.6 g/ a 12-year mine life. metric ton) and a gold gradeover 0.1 oz/metric...by earlyto mid-Miocene volcanicrocks.A later set mine. secondary set of northeast-southwest-striking...Intersections of the reGold and silverproductionduringthe mine life is were superimposed controlledthe location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Spain, and then heading south to Navajún to meet mine owner Pedro Ansorena Conde and dig for pyrite. The...breakfast, we hopped into his SUV and headed for the mine. The drive is only 2.4 kilometers on a well-maintained...the cleft between two hills to the mine site. Driving into the mine, the first thing I saw was the 60-meter-high...heavy equipment and the north and east walls of the mine. specimens. Layer two was at one time worked using...three remains in reserve. When we arrived at the mine, the sun was behind the quarry wall, providing shade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The San Jorge porphyry copper deposit, Mendoza, Argentina: a combination of orthomagmatic and hydrothermal...Cuyo, Argentina b Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fısicas, y Naturales, UNSJ, 5400 San Juan, Argentina ´ Received...located within the Permo-Triassic belt of Chile and Argentina. Its hypogene mineralization and alteration are...de Correo 468, Correo Central, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina. E-mail: billfabi@impsat1.com.ar 1 Current address:...address: Pueyrredon ´ 138, 8183 Darregueira, Argentina. Cordillera in the Uspallata Valley approximately
Report (issue)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF THE GUIANA SHIELD...present are in the El Callao mining district (no. 37 on map). The El Callao mine was the most productive...productive gold mine in the world during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century (Newhouse and Zuloaga, 1929)...(1974) estimated that potential gold reserves in the El Callao district are about 84,000 kg from 4.6 x 106...to a depth of 250 m at the underground Colombia Mine (being mined by MINERVEN in 1989) are estimated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hg, Sb-As) and rare metals (Be-Li-Nb) mineral province in SW China (Hou et al., 2007; Li et al., 2010...Magmatic rocks are scarce in/around the Luziyuan mine, except for sporadic unmineralized diabase dikes..., 2010), which outcrops ~14 km southeast of the mine (Figs. 1B and 2A). Nevertheless, regional gravity...concealed intermediate-felsic pluton at depth under the mine (e.g., Dong, 2007; Dong and Chen, 2007; Zhao et...silicates (e.g., smithsonite, hemimorphite, cerussite, limonite and malachite) at shallower depths. Based on published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
both in terms of areal extent and time. The northern El Plomo and southernmost Los Piches exploration areas...These are also older than those reported from the El Teniente porphyry Cu(-Mo) deposit, suggesting that...2,500 t of Mo per year. The Los Bronces open-pit mine produces annually 400,000 t of fine copper and 2... The alteration centers are from north to south: El Plomo, San Manuel, Los Bonces (LB) open pit, and...Appendix 2 to 4, respectively. U-Pb LA-ICPMS data El Plomo, at the northern tip of the Los Bronces cluster
Report (volume)
PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary ...deposits________ 2. Stratigraphic column for the Coastal Province of Ecuador_____ 3. Comparison of analyses of typical...part of Routh America, Brazil and Venezuela both mine phosphorites from marine sedimentary formations...~ome producing and others being deYeloved. In Argentina seYeral large areas of marine sedimentary rocks...exploration for phosphates and potash. Salars in Argentina ~honld be thoroughly ilwestigated for potash salts
Report (issue)
PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1968 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...Walsenburg area (Johnson, 1958); the Trinidad-Aguilar area (Harbour and Dixon, 1959); Huerfano Park (Johnson...monoclinal flexure occurs 3 miles northwest of Aguilar. The monocline trends northeastward through beds...of biotite, and 2 percent magnetite. Traces of limonite, chlorite, and clay are the secondary constituents...corundum, 1; and rutile, 1. Secondary minerals, limonite and calcite, make up 2 percent of the rock. The
Report (issue)
Ancient Perú A translation of Minería y Metalurgia en el Antiguo Perú Arqueológicas 12 Publications of the...Petersen G., Georg, 1898–1985. [Minería y metalurgia en el antiguo Perú. English] Mining and metallurgy in ancient.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Ancient Perú Georg Petersen’s Minería y Metalurgia en el Antiguo Perú was originally published in Spanish...use today. Native copper from the Cerro de Pasco Mine, a shell used as a palette for mixing cinnabar-based
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
strata-boundbodies (see Wellmer et al., 1983, for the El Toqui mine). PreviousWork on Pb Geochemistryin the Central...2ø6Pb/•ø4pb vs.•ø?Pb/ from the Capillitaslocalityin Argentina(Tilton et 2ø4pbratios;these correspond to a 2...15.626 38.724 NN 69'-19.3' Rep. Argentina 23*-20' (*) Aguilar 65*-50' Paleozoicpluton, Ga, Cpy/carbonates...AGP Field district no. and mine latøS, 1ongøW El Salvador 26ø-15.Y El Salvador 10857 69ø-34.4 '...' Chafiarcillo 27ø-49.6 ' El Plomo 2-220 70ø-23.5 ' Sierra La Galena 28ø-04 ' Carola 70o-29 '
Report (volume)
PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1961 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary ...area in the westernmost part of the Great Plains province, and the coal occurs in rocks limited to the structural...Walsenburg area (Johnson, l!958a), and Trinidad^ Aguilar area (Harbour and Dixon, 1959). 132 CONTRIBUTIONS...who kindly supplied much information consisting of mine maps, diamond-drill records, and the descriptions...area in the westernmost part of the Great Plains province; its western margin lies along the eastern foothills
Report (issue)
…………………………………18 2 Chalcopyrite crystals from the San Pedro mine ……………………………......33 0 PLATES 1. Topographic map...Pedro mine ……………………………….....31 10.Unusually large chalcopyrite crystal from the San Pedro mine ……………...and contact metasomatic deposits. The San Pedro mine has been the most important and has produced more...northern edge of the area lies partly within the Ortiz Mine Grant and entirely within the New Placers mining...droppings indicate that they often sleep in abandoned mine tunnels. Unfortunately, rattlesnakes are numerous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central Atacama Province, Chile Abstract: Geologically, the central part of Atacama Province straddles the...The entire area is in the copper metallogenetic province of Ruiz and Ericksen (1962), and parts of it are...are represented in the central part of Atacama Province. However, most of the production of metals has...References cited 317 Figure 1. Index map of Atacama Province, Chile . . . 306 2. Locations of figures in Plates...locations of representative mines in central Atacama Province, Chile 314 Plate Facing 1. Geologic map and structure
Journal (issue)
Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identification of the yellow mineral present, either limonite or goethite, than the one achieved by FORS. Nonetheless...San Francisco, CA, USA, 1988. Magaloni Kerpel, D. El espacio pictórico teotihuacano, tradición y técnica...Magaloni Kerpel, D. Teotihuacan: El lenguaje del color. In El Color En El Arte Mexicano Universidad Nacional...Teotihuacan Murals, De Young Museum of San Francisco; Department of Geology, University of California: Davis,...Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 2019. Aguilar-Téllez, D.M.; Ruvalcaba-Sil, J.L.; Claes, P.; González-González
Journal (issue)
specimen you find. But it Epidote Croft Magnetite Mine. 6 miles N. of Peekskill, Westchester County, N...Amherst County, Va. Uraninite Edwin Feldspar Co~p. Mine. Headwaters Crabtree Creek, Yancey County, N. C...engineer. Montgome ry Mine In the vicinity of the above site the Montgomery Mine was started about 1875...about $8,000 worth of gold was taken out of the mine. and that many fine nuggets, weighing up to 3 or...had been ob· tained from it. Fo.-d Mine About 1890 the Ford Mine, located on a slope above the west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gaby (Cl) Rosario (Cl) Morenci; NW extension (Az) El Salvador (Cl) Chuquicamata (Cl) Inspiration (Az)...Toquepala (Pe) Cerro Colorado (Cl) Ok Tedi (PNG) El Abra (Cl) Mocoa (Co) Boyongan (Ph) La Escondida...neo = neotocite (Cu-Mn oxides), pitch = pitch limonite (copper pitch), rx = roxbyite, ten = tenorite...tur = turquoise, wad = copper wad References: 1) Aguilar et al., 2003, 2) Alpers and Brimhall, 1989, 3)...Absent Thickness (m) El Salvador Los Pelambres El Teniente La Escondida Chile El Abra Cerro Colorado
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P 25° El Salvador Bajo de la Alumbrera Miocene porphyry Cu-Au belt 30° Chile Argentina Miocene porphyry...porphyry Cu-Mo belt Santiago 0 50 El Teniente 35° 75° 70° kilometers 65° FIG. 1. Late Cretaceous...PALEOCENE TO EOCENE, PERU 8115000 mN N Cuajone Mine Quellaveco Proposed Pit 8110000 mN Qu ella ...Inc ap 8090000 mN 0 uq uio Fa ult Toquepala Mine Porphyry Intrusive Complexes (Paleocene) Granodiorite...0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 Deposit Geology Cuajone The Cuajone mine, located approximately 30 km northeast of the town
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcaniclastic rocks Andesitic volcanic rocks Quartz ± limonite ± magnetite veins 3,221,500 mN Faults: based...Tomlinson, A.J., Rivera, O., and Fanning, C.M., 1997, El Salvador, Chile porphyry copper deposit revisited:...Review, v. 39, p. 22–54. Deckart, K., Clark, A.H., Aguilar, C., Vargas, R., Bertens, A.N., Mortensen, J.K...chronometers, Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold deposit, Argentina: Mineralium Deposita, v. 43, p. 295–314. Hattori...of the Reko Diq porphyry district, Balochistan province, Pakistan: Unpublished report submitted to Tethyan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
third-party inlier on the property hosts the Kartaldağ mine, reputed to be the source of gold for Priam’s treasure... and iron oxide as hematite, goethite, and/or limonite. Upper oxide gold zone: Gold hosted in fine to...helped put it on the map as a significant gold province. TMST, under the leadership of Ugur Kiziltepe...epithermal Pascua Au-Ag-Cu deposit, Chile and Argentina: Economic Geology, v. 100, p. 463–490. Cunningham-Dunlop...Inc. on the Ağı Dağı gold property, Çanakkale province, Turkey, from April 2004 to December 2005: Canadian
Report (volume)
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1975 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN, JR., Secretary...1938. The ICSCC, under the direction of the U.S. Department of State, was authorized to coordinate the overseas...this framework, and with $25,000 from the U.S. Department of State, the USGS began geologic investigations...Allotments for Latin American studies from the U.S. Department of State were increased and supplemented by funds...agreement resulted in the formation of the Bolivian Department of Supervised Mining Credit, a program under
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rock-Magnetic and Oxide Microscopic Studies of the El Laco Iron Ore Deposits, Chilean Andes, and Implications...Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile J. O. NYSTRÖM, Department of Mineralogy, Swedish Museum of Natural History...History, Stockholm, Sweden AND R. H. NASLUND Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New...rock-magnetic studies of the ores and host rocks of the El Laco iron oxide deposits permit us to characterize...showing the location of the iron ore deposits at El Laco, Chile. Numbered black stars indicate the paleomagnetic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
These deposits define a metallogenic province, named the MVT province of northeastern Mexico [2,4]. Geophysical...MVT deposits. P1 is in the Minerva Mine, P2 in Guadalupe Mine, P3 in El Otomímine, P4 in Profiles P2, P3...Minerva Mine, P2 in Guadalupe Mine, P3 in El Otomí mine, P4 in Juan Valencia mine, and P5 in El Tapón mine...mine. Juan Valencia mine, and P5 in El Tapón mine. 2. Geological Setting 2. Geological Setting Mineral...associated with the East Mexican Alcan Alkaline Province, which correspond mostly to skarn type [14]. In
 
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