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Muscovite from
Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia


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 Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1010525
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1010525:2
GUID (UUID V4):c504c22b-7ef8-4efd-a3d2-eb1dccde3158
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
2.5km (1.5 miles) Iroco mine (Kori Chaka), Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
12.3km (7.7 miles) Vinto prospect, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
33.6km (20.9 miles) Japo Mine (Negro Pabellón Mine), Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
38.0km (23.6 miles) Kori Kollu mine (Inti Raymi mine; Kori Kollo mine), Cerro Chuquina, La Joya mining district, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
40.5km (25.1 miles) Santa Fé Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
41.6km (25.9 miles) Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
47.7km (29.6 miles) Huanuni mine, Huanuni, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
58.8km (36.5 miles) Ichocollo Mine (Monserrat Mine), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
71.9km (44.7 miles) Kami Mine, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
76.6km (47.6 miles) Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...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...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ages of Tin-Polymetallic Mineralization in the Oruro Mining District, Central Bolivian Tin Belt Asahiko...vein-type tin-polymetallic ore deposits of the Oruro mining district in the central part of the Bolivian...is concluded that hypogene mineralization in the Oruro mining district took place during the early to middle...alunite, jarosite, sericite, sulfur isotope, Oruro, Bolivia mineralization epochs of Bolivian epigenetic-type...presented several K-Ar ages on vein-selvedge muscovite, which clarified the mineralization ages of some
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)
TIN-SILVER OF GEOLOGISTS VEINS OF F. M. ORURO 1948 No. 6 BOLIVIA. CHACE. PART II. CONTENTS--PART................................... Genesisof the Oruro ore deposit ......................................rock alterat{onassociated with ore deposit{on at Oruro varies cons{derably {n intensity with the several...quartz latite porphyry can be found in the San Jos• mine even far from veins without disseminated pyrite... and matrix alike. . TIN-SILVER VEINS OF ORURO,BOLIVIA. 437 The pyroxeneand amphibolehave nearly
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...over the years, mined commercial-grade feldspar, muscovite and beryl at the Waisanen, Nubble, and Bumpus
Thesis/Dissertation
Non-Metallic Mineral Deposits in the La Paz Region, Bolivia Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural...Non-Metallic Mineral Deposits in the La Paz Region, Bolivia Ariana Zeballos Ore Geology Geological, Geochemical...Non-Metallic Mineral Deposits in the La Paz Region, Bolivia Ariana Zeballos Luleå University of Technology...a promising source of economic development in Bolivia where the mining industry’s main focus is on metalliferous...deposits. The industrial mineral resources in Bolivia are of large quantity, even though they remain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cycle .............. The Tertiary petrographic province ............................. The Tertiary me...excellentwork of Myron Davy (I92O), the Bolivian Tin Province has beenthe object of much detailedresearch. Its...a short summary of the present knowledgeof the province. Many questionshave not yet been solved;geologicaland...provenearly Tertiary2 ageare knownin this part of Bolivia. The batholith of apliticgranitewhichI foundin...canism in themiddle andsouthern partsof thetin province pro• Theageof theyoungmagmatie rocksof Peru,especially
Catalog/List
lxl-3/4" to 1-1/2x2-3/4" $ 10.00 BOLEITE Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Choice bright blue single...to lxl-1/2" 5 Specimens $ 10.00 CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia Bright orange-red crystalline...2x10 mm 10 Specimens $ 7.50 KALIBORITE Enrique mine, Sallent, Spain Choice pure white granular micro...inclusions. l-l/4x2" and 2x2-l/2" MALACHITE Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Choice pure green single...Specimens $ 5.00 METAVAUXITE Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bolivia Choice pale green to silky white fibrous
Report (issue)
quartz; fluorite and molybdenite; cassiterite, muscovite, and fluorite; stannite, wolframite, topaz, and...resembles some of the ore from the Itos mine, near Oruro, Bolivia. Green and brown tourmaline, topaz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
205 feet), Tocorpuri on the border of Chile and Bolivia is 6,873 meters (22,550 feet), and the highest...narrow to only 32 kilometers (20 miles), whereas in Bolivia they Dr. Terry C. Wallace is a professor of geosciences...Florida] at 09:23 14 October 2014 vivianites from Oruro, Bolivia; and fantastic pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica...Pomerape (6,282 meters) on the border of Chile and Bolivia. These volcanoes, like hundreds of others in the...by one of the authors (TCW) and colleagues in Bolivia. in silicates and thus are quite viscous. This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PP. 73-8 Silver sulphosalts from the Meerschaum Mine, Mt. Wills, Victoria, Australia W. D. BIRCH Department...minerals was discovered in 1906 in the Meerschaum Mine, on the Sunnyside goldfield at Mt. Wills,in northeastern...ranging from about 350 ~ to below 300 ~ THE Meerschaum Mine was one of the richest mines on the Sunnyside goldfield...on the gold production and general layout of the mine workings in relation to the reef system (e.g. Lidgey...about 13 x 13 km. The granite is medium grained, muscovite- and tourmalinebearing and intrudes phyllites
Book (edition)
grey) fills gaps produced by cleavage of foliated muscovite (dark). Right: Kink-banding of layered molybdite...Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches suggest otherwise ... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Book (edition)
Pseudotetragonal Layered Structures [Si4O10]4- and others Muscovite VIII/H.10-70 860 VIII/H.11-00 Biotite 862 Chamosite...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Report (volume)
Mine Water Hydrogeology and Geochemistry Geological Society Special Publications Society Book Editors... GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION No. 198 Mine Water Hydrogeology and Geochemistry EDITED BY P...WOLKERSDORFER, C. Mine water tracing 47 WHITWORTH, K.R. The monitoring and modelling of mine water recovery...physically based model of rebound in South Crofty tin mine, Cornwall 89 ROBINS, N.S., DUMPLETON, S. & WALKER...Depressurization of the north wall at the Escondida Copper Mine, Chile 107 KUMA, J.S., YOUNGER, P.L. & BOWELL
Book (volume)
and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...position. in the figure labeled 461 San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. insert superscript...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...pegmatite minerals together with scheelite (Natas mine, South- West Africa); in contact metamorphic deposits
Book
Approximate production percentages are Malaysia 39%, Bolivia 15%, Thailand 11%, Indonesia 12%, Australia 6%...of the continent, it is possible to outline a province extending from Alaska to Mexico. (Sainsbury et...would hesitate to nominate the entire zone as a province. Similarly global scale linear tin belts can be...(Schuiling, 1967a, 1967b). Even within a well accepted province the perspective of different scales is important...Asian tin zone is normally regarded as a single province extending some 3000 km. from Thailand to Indonesia
Journal (issue)
Calaveras County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$1,400 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. GOLD—1.4 oz. mass, large crystals...dera County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$2,750 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. KRISTALLE Wayne and Dona.............. 28 by Peter B. Leavens The Bluebell Mine, Riondel, British Columbia, Canada................since then there has been no production. The major mine in the district, the Jumbo, produced 5000 tons of...copper mine at Bingham, Utah. Recently there has been some prospecting and drilling in the Jumbo mine area
Journal (issue)
is very gratifying at the old abandoned tun~sten mine in to them to see the many old friends at T rumbull...Easton, Penn. I t hailed from 1· Nagaoke Gori, Province of Tosa, Japan. found at Ampangabe and received...specimen at- Sea, (hence its name) at the Parys mine tracted considerable interest as it was the where... is a silicate of alHam, Wolfe County, Quebec Province, lt, uminum and sodium. It gets its nan1e ID from...MI NERALS 72 pegmatite, came from the H arvard mine on Noyes Mountain, Green,vood , Maine. Apo phyllite:
Book
mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Bahia, Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5...divided by the weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10
Journal (issue)
deposit of An Phu, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 by D. Blauwet...crystal cluster on matrix, 6 cm tall, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Sandor Fuss collection (2004)...Vug,” discovered on the 12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The...Mineralogical Record, volume 37, May–June, 2006 Cresson mine manager Dick Roelofs showing the Cresson Vug to...school; he did his Master’s work at the Rueppele iron mine in Stanton, Missouri. He spent the years 1931–1932
Book
aurifères des roches volcaniques de Rodalquilar, Province d' Almeria. ARGENT Ag Cubique. Les cristaux nets...allongées Vue générale des installations de la mine d'or de l'entreprise nationale Adaro, à Rodalquilar...Guadalajara ; Guadalcanal, province de Séville et ceux de Las Her rerias, province d' Almeria. ELE,\J F...dans les mines de Jaroso, _Almagrcra, dans la province d'Almcria. De l'allemand W1SMUTH, d'origine inconnue...étain. Abondant en Saxe, Allemagne; à Sorata, province de La Paz, Bolivie; Kingsgate, Nouvelles Galles
Journal (issue)
............... MARK M. FOSTER BUYS FAMOUS OPAL MINE ........................ KIBBLEHOUSE QUARRY, PERKIOMENVILLE...Goethite, Restormel Iron Mine, Lanlivery, Cornwall, England; T etrahedrite, Gottesg~be Mine, Roth, Nassau, Germany...Germany ; Celesttte, Giona Mine, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. We wish that some of the amateur mineral dealers...whose localities are given simply as a county or province, or what is worse yet, state or country, will...information regarding the source of the specimens-name of mine or quarry if possible but at least the town, village
Report (issue)
between galena sphalerite, Darwin Lead-Silver-Zinc mine, Inyo County, California, Econ. Geol., v. 66, p..., Bingham 1971, mining U. xiii S. study mine, of the '"'B" limestone Bingham mining The age... 1971, p. 215-225 The Bolivian tin-silver province: Econ. Geol., v. 66, ABSTRACT These bibliographies... in Canada and the United States, by state or province. The state in which each Mexican deposit occurs...Finally, to that fine group of scientists and men, the mine geologists of the Americas, who have taken time
 
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