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Cassiterite from
Chicote Grande Mine, Chicote Grande, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Arsenopyrite2 photos of Cassiterite associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Cassiterite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Siderite2 photos of Cassiterite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chicote Grande Mine, Chicote Grande, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:552956
Long-form Identifier:1:3:552956:8
GUID (UUID V4):c422cbad-72ac-4535-b4d9-32d4c1a178a6
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
1.6km (1.0 miles) Lapiani Mine, Chicote Grande, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
7.7km (4.8 miles) Kami Mine, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
8.4km (5.2 miles) Santa Rosa section, Kami Mine, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
29.8km (18.5 miles) Colquiri mine, Colquiri, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
46.4km (28.8 miles) Eureka mine, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
47.1km (29.3 miles) Sayaquiri mine, La Paz, Bolivia
53.8km (33.4 miles) Pepita mine, La Paz, Bolivia
54.0km (33.6 miles) Bajaderia mine, Quime, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
58.0km (36.1 miles) Tirus mine, Quime, Inquisivi province, La Paz, Bolivia
67.3km (41.8 miles) Caracoles Mine, Caracoles mining district, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE CHICOTE TUNGSTEN FEDERICO DEPOSIT, BOLIVIA. AHLFELD. ABSTRACT. The Chicotedistrict, situatedin.............................................. Cassiterite veins .........................................by the authorof nearly every tungstendepositof Bolivia* showedthat the wolframitedeposits belongto a well...yacimientosde wolfram de Bolivia. La Paz, 1942. 394 THE CHICOTE TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, BOLIVIA. 395 It isontheedge...boundaryof the Inquisiviprovinceof the department oœ La Paz, andthe Ayopayaprovinceof the department of Cochabamba
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...(presumably without the shrine) to a European in La Paz, Bolivui. Rolf Wein bought the specimen on July...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv
Report (issue)
pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Rocks of Africa...last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Now a few more...pseudocrystals. Suolunite, 6.8 cm, from the Lac D’Amiante mine, Thetford Mines, Quebec. David K. Joyce Minerals
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at mines in Ancash, Ica, La Libertad, and Pasco departments; and in Bolivia at the Llallagua tin mines...including Kami in Cochabamba Department, Chicote Grande in La Paz Department, and Tazna in Potosi Department...Japan-law twins were commonly found at the Holland mine, Washington Camp, Duquesne, Santa Cruz County, Arizona...(skarns) and Bolivia where they occur in high-temperature ferberite and/or cassiterite John S. White...same is true for the Fazenda Pé da Serra quartz mine, Joaquim Felício, Minas Gerais, Brazil, which has
Report (issue)
Norte Cty, CA Santa Helena, Antioquia, Colombia Goto Mine, Luzan, P.I. References Wells, F. G. et al 1946...Minerals: Molybdenite+f luorite+pyrite+wolf ramite+cassiterite+topaz . Texture/ Structure Disseminated and...Cu, Co, Au DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION Ore Minerals: cassiterite. Magnetite±chalcopyrite±cobaltite±pyrite±pyrrhotite...teimagnetite±traces of wolframite fluorite, cassiterite, and native bismuth. Texture/Structure Alteration... Cu, Ag. DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION Ore Minerals; Cassiterite±scheelite±sphalerite±pyrrhotite±magnetite±pyrite±
Journal (issue)
Fine Minerals selection, barite from the Meikle Mine complex from the Great Basin Minerals selection...Australia, tel., 03-9314-9612) had several spessartine Mine ral News 2 crystals from Broken Hill, New South...had a good selection of the most incredible Acif Mine. Mibladen. Morocco vanadinites. These were all the...find with s maller (but still large!) miniature to la rge cabinet size specimens. Many people feel that...room Ottens Mineralien (on s pec imen la bels as : 945 I 8 Spiegc la u. KlingenbrunnBahnhof 24, Germa ny
Journal (issue)
Trebisky and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California..........................Henderson The Mineralogy of the Department of Oruro, Bolivia..................................................c o rc l W \ Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina...made his mark in a tourmaline find at the B.B. #7 mine in north Norway, Maine, and came to fame as the...specimens and gem materials in­ clude the Harvard mine for purple apatite, Plumbago mountain for rose quartz
Report (issue)
category ........ Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tungsten contained in ore and concentrate—...also recovered from placer deposits. Most current mine production of tungsten is from vein/ stockwork,...accounted for over three-fourths of the world’s mine production of tungsten. China alone produced about...new mines in Brazil and boosted production in Bolivia, Japan, and Spain. In the 1950’s, during and after...resulted in numerous mine closures (estimated at 85 percent of Western world mine capacity). In some cases
Book
stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket...1886, when he went underground into a Cornish tin mine in search of crystals. During his lifetime he collected
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 (issue)
Columns W h a t's n e w in m i n e r a l s D e la w a r e S h o w 1 9 9 8 ...........................ificad a m in e, C e rro R ico d e P o to si, Bolivia. R esearch C h a rita b le T ru s t sp e c im e...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had... famous mineral localities: Cerro ;8.ico de £ofosi Bolivia ^ --------------------- Wendell E. Wilson 4631...85750 Alfredo Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia Cerro Rico ( “Rich M ou n tain ”) de Potosi is
Book
stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket...1886, when he went underground into a Cornish tin mine in search of crystals. During his lifetime he collected
Report (issue)
contain a number of major deposits in Canada, USA, Bolivia and Peru. In Western Europe the Variscan belt that...some important tungsten deposits. In Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia and São Paulo states) and Africa...deposits are a particular type identified at the Climax Mine in Colorado, USA. 24 Stock: an intrusive mass of...fractionated alkaline granites e.g. Rondônia Tin Province, Brazil. They do not occur in I-type diorite to...Mittersill–Felbertal scheelite deposit in the Salzburg province of Austria is the best known example of stratabound
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
Report (volume)
based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...government believed might someday be economic ta mine. Stratiform deposits of large areal extent, such...EXAMPLES High Plateau, Del Norte Cty, USCA Coto Mine, Luzon, PLPN (Wells and others, 1946) (LeBlanc...DEPOSITS Name Ace of Spades Adobe Canyon Gp. Ajax Alice Mine Allan (Johnson) Alta Hill Althouse Alyce and Blue
Report (issue)
others, 1963). Copper deposits described from the La Quinta Formation in adjacent parts of the Perija...listed above and comprise the Giron, Guatapuri and La Quinta Formations in the Cordillera Oriental, Santa...Buenaventura, J. A. 1975, Ocurrencias minerales en la region central del Departamento del Tolima, Part...1961, Historia Geol6gica de Colombia: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas...Fabio, 1968, El grupo Giron, una molasa Mesozoica de la Cordillera Oriental: Colombia Servicio Geologico
Journal (issue)
Traps. In 1808 he published a note in the Annallen de la Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, showing a crystal...the trade in amethyst and agate shipped from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, but it is nonetheless significant...more or less synonymous with the Deccan Volcanic Province, the area now blanketed by Deccan basalt flows...Deccan Traps, the Deccan Traps (or Deccan Volcanic Province) form only a portion of the Deccan Plateau, and...tholeiite as a relatively felsic basalt. The plateau province of the Deccan basalts originated, then, in the
Book
2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...they are associated with schorl, quartz and cassiterite (Cairncross and Bahmann, 2006a; Von Bezing, Bode
Journal (issue)
1979 with an article on the Sweet Home mine. He mined the Dixie mine in Idaho Springs for leaf gold and crystallized...Viloco, Llallagua, the San Jose mine in Oruro, Tasna, Morococala, Chicote Grande, and Cerro Rico de Potos ...reopened the now-famous Sweet Home mine in Alma, Colorado to mine specimen rhodochrosite, h bnerite,...Other localities mined include the Calumet Iron mine; Italian Mountain; and Mt. Antero. In July 1979...each are allowed by the local mining committee to mine the deposits. The Chumar Bakhoor pegmatites have
Report (volume)
University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project...deposits in Devonian rocks of the Valley and Ridge province, Appalachian Mountains: Economic Geology, v. 81...in a stratiform body in schist at the Homestake mine in British Columbia. There is a distinct absence...Fluid-Deposited Cinnabar DS Mercury in the Paradise Peak Mine D6 References D8 FIGURES 1. Map showing location...(occurrence type 2). MERCURY IN THE PARADISE PEAK MINE alunite, and quartz (fig. 3) . Sulfur is present
Report (issue)
Rock National Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources...public lands from mineral entry, and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources...past decade has created concern about the impact of mine dewatering on groundwater resources in this region...existing data on known hydrocarbon plays in the area (province 18, Western Great Basin) and the identification...District (Bonham and others, 1985); and studies of mine sites in the Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Area,
Book (edition)
AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH...British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...°Pernambuco SRR Piaui E : Rio de Janeiro Rio Grande Norte Rio Grande Sul AG AL AP AM BA CE PA Ee PE PI RJ...Monogr The Mineralogical Society, 1980 Bulletin de la Commission Geologique de Finlande XXXVii XXXViii...Bulletin de Minéralogie (pre-1978, vol. 101, Bulletin de la Société Francaise de Minéralogie et Crystallographie
Book (volume)
Argentina, at Potosi and other localities in Bolivia, and in Peru. In Mexico found in Zacatecas and...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...probably also occurs in that state in the Hechman mine, near Globe, Gila County. Many other occurrences...with atacamite in limestone at the San Augustin mine, Huantajaya, near Iquique, Chile, as an alteration... Sierra County, New Mexico, At the Commonwealth mine, associated with vanadates and calcite. deposits
Report (issue)
exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site may include metal contents and suites in minedrainage...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits...including, for example, the environmental effects of a mine drainage on a river into which the drainage flows...release of metals into the environment from solid mine or mineral processing wastes. Although the relative
 
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