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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Coipa mine, Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1002945
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1002945:7
GUID (UUID V4):86820898-39a5-476c-9d49-7e8b160d383d
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
24.6km (15.3 miles) Potrerillos Mine, Potrerillos, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
26.1km (16.2 miles) El Hueso 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
64.6km (40.1 miles) Viva Chile Mine, Carrera Pinto, Cachiyuyo de Llampos mining district, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
70.8km (44.0 miles) Marte Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
83.5km (51.9 miles) Mantoverde Project, Mantoverde mining district, El Salado, Chañaral, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
84.8km (52.7 miles) Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
97.6km (60.6 miles) Portezuelo de Pajas Blancas deposit, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
facies grade, i.e. over the stability field of muscovite. Massive quartz (metamorphosed vein quartz) is...gelmberk (7), Laby (8), Pacov (9), Choustnik (10) and De~tnfi (11) 13 Q tional zones ofmigmatites. The...twomica gneisses, less frequently biotite or muscovite gneisses, and always display pronounced planar...body is strongly leucocratic. The orthogneiss at De~tnfi is more basic than the other orthogneisses;...Pacov (5) and De~tnfi (6); muscovite-quartz greisens (7), biotite-free quartz-muscovite greisens (8),
Book
org/details/geologyofchile0000unse The Geology of Chile • The Geologica l Society of London Books Editorial...T. & GIBBO, s, W . (eds) 2007 . The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society, London. CHARRIER, R., PINTO...the Andean Orogeo in Chile. Jn: MORENO, T. & GrnsoNs, W. (eds) The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society...of Chile EDITED BY TERESA MORENO Earth Sciences Institute 'J aume Almera', Consejo Superior de I11vestigaciones...Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno 329 Refere
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)
Tambo high-sulfidation epithermal gold deposits in Chile as well as the recently discovered Alturas high-sulfidation...hosted by Miocene volcanic breccias of the Cerro de las Tórtolas and Vacas Heladas formations (Charchaflié...metallogenic belt, which straddles the Argentina-Chile border along the crest of the Cordillera Frontal...o 300 CHILE 24 S SOUTH AMERICA Escondida El Salvador Tucumán Maricunga belt Bajo de la Alumbrera...El Indio-Pascua metallogenic belt, spanning the Chile-Argentina border in the Andean Cordillera (modified
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
explanatorytext by Bellidoandde Montreuil(1972), la republiea... E1Peregrino." and the perceptivesyntheses...Ponzoni(1980) and ei6n: Volved un instante la eabeza haeia este lado de Nieanor Parra, Poemasy Antipoemas Soleret...Paleozoieage. The 1:1,000,000 nationalmetallogenicmapof De the Andesnorth of the Bolivian orocline,while Pitcher...stratigraphic, petrologic,and tectonicsettingof Cordillerade la Costa(Fig. 1) and the entire Cordilthe ore depositsof...Llula ' "-/';'/•/•/:;:• , I .... ;-• / /."/ cHILE ' / / 'i greeswestlongitude METALLOGENIC EVOLUTION
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)
Processes in the El Indio-Pascua Au-Ag-Cu Belt, Chile and Argentina THOMAS BISSIG,* ALAN H. CLARK,† JAMES...the enormous erosion surfaces of the Atacama desert of northern Chile and southern Peru, are considered...on supergene processes in the Andes of northern Chile and southern Peru has long been recognized (e.g...Indio-Pascua gold-silver-copper belt which straddles the Chile-Argentina frontier along the tectonic and physiographic...971 972 BISSIG ET AL. Chile Antofagasta PE R U -C Puna Tucumán La Coipa Maricunga Belt Refugio
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Viramonte c a Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Casilla de Correo 258, S.S. de Jujuy, 4600, Argentina b Department...University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA c Universidad Nacional de Salta, Buenos Aires 177, Salta, 4000, Argentina Published...Altiplano of southern Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile, is a high plateau whose base elevations range from...based on research supported by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientfficas y Tecnicas (CONICET,...CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Casilla de Correo 258, (4600) S.S. de Jujuy, Argentina. department
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper-Silver Veins in the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON J. MASTERMAN,†,* DAVID R. COOKE, RON F....Compañia Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM, Pedro Lagos 1090, Iquique, Chile Abstract The Rosario and...associated with the Domeyko fault system in northern Chile. At Rosario, fault-hosted Cu-Ag–rich massive sulfide...mineralization. Similar massive sulfide veins occur in the La Grande area, 1 to 2 km south of Rosario. Copper ore...age of 32.7 ± 1.6 Ma for hypogene alunite from the La Grande Cu-Ag-(Au) vein south of Rosario is indistinguishable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
breccia constrains the maximum age of brecciation. Four LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dates on hydrothermal monazite (2693...a frequent host to porphyry (e.g., El Teniente, Chile and Toquepala, Peru) and epithermal base and precious...Red Mountain, Colorado; Pascua-Lama, Chile-Argentina; La Coipa, Chile; Wau, Papua New Guinea), making them...feldspar porphyritic rhyolite dike (Quemont feeder dike; De Rosen Spence, 1976; Lichtblau and Dimroth, 1980)...Superior Province (Fig. 1). Volcanic rocks of the district comprise the Noranda Subgroup (De Rosen Spence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Canyon, Utah; Collahuasi, Chuquicamata, La Escondida, El Teniente, Chile) makes them valuable exploration targets...Ba, and Sr (Tatsumi et al., 1986; Davidson, 1996; de Hoog et al., 2001). Certain high field strength elements...Ti Sn Eu Zr Hf Nd Sm Sr P Pr M Ce Pb K La U Nb Th Ba Tl Rb Cs 0.1 Element FIG. 2....from Escondida, Zaldívar, and Chimborazo, northern Chile, and coeval regional diorite intrusions. Negative...rocks containing hydrous minerals, especially muscovite (Clemens and Mawer, 1992; Vigneresse et al., 1996;
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
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
Report (issue)
W. Rapela Centro de Investigaciones Geologicas Universidad Nacional de La Plata La Plata 1900, Argentina...Chungara of the Nevados de Payachata Volcanic Group at 18°S in northern Chile. The two stratocones, Volcan...Jurassic Proto-Marginal Basin; Southern Andes, Chile and Argentind .......... 0. ccc cece cece R. E....of the Triassic to Jurassic Plutonism of Central Chile (30 to 33°S); Petrogenetic Implications and a Tectonic...Northern Chile 015 oe iag ones 28 00) Gh Wide 5) pad ew ee HAM OHM M. Brown er 12. The Cordoén de Lila
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
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
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
Book (edition)
Australia The cover shows an overview of the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry copper-gold deposit before the...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Arc Associations. Bajo de la Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . Bingham Copper...Copper Deposit, Utah, USA . EI Indio Gold Deposit, Chile . Twin Buttes Copper Deposit, Arizona, USA Postcollisional...Lamprophyres . Shoshonitic Lamprophyres from the Superior Province, Canada (Archaean) Introduction Nature of Mesothermal
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
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
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 (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
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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
 
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