Breccia from
Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina

Locality type:

Mine Zone

Classification

Type:

Breccia

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

1267691

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:1267691:2

GUID (UUID V4):

9aaa399f-c43b-4573-abf9-7ca709e3d587

Nearest other occurrences of Breccia

34.7km (21.6 miles)

ⓘ Chinchillas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina

54.6km (33.9 miles)

ⓘ Cerro Redondo prospect, Rinconada, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina

References

Slater, E. T. (2016). The Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, NW Argentina: An Example of Miocene Epithermal Ag-Zn-Pb-Sn Mineralization in the Andean Tin Belt (Masters thesis, Laurentian University of Sudbury).

Reference Search (possible matching items)

	Slater, Evan T., McDonald, Andrew M., Kontak, Daniel J. (2019) Resolving Primary and Retrograde Sulfide and Sulfosalt Textures in the Epithermal Ag-zn-pb-sn-rich Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, Argentina. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (1) 117-143 doi:10.3749/canmin.1700076	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	THE EPITHERMAL Ag-Zn-Pb-Sn-RICH CORTADERAS ZONE, PIRQUITAS MINE, ARGENTINA EVAN T. SLATER§, ANDREW M. MCDONALD...epithermal Ag-Zn-Sn-rich Cortaderas Zone (CZ) at the Pirquitas mine, Jujuy, Argentina, were studied using...sulfosalt geothermometry. The CZ containing the Cortaderas breccia is dominated by colloform sphalerite which...hosting signiﬁcant base-metal mineralization. The Pirquitas mine, which is known to host signiﬁcant Ag-Zn-Sn-Pb...Ag-Zn-Sn-Pb § mineralization, is located in Jujuy, Argentina, and is considered to represent the southernmost
	Desanois, Louis, Lüders, Volker, Niedermann, Samuel, Trumbull, Robert B. (2019) Formation of epithermal Sn-Ag-(Zn) vein-type mineralization at the Pirquitas deposit, NW Argentina: Fluid inclusion and noble gas isotopic constraints. Chemical Geology, 508. 78-91 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.024	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	Sn-Ag-(Zn) vein-type mineralization at the Pirquitas deposit, NW Argentina: Fluid inclusion and noble gas isotopic...Bolivian tin belt Pirquitas Epithermal Ag-Sn deposits Fluid inclusions Noble gas The Pirquitas Sn-Ag-(Zn) deposit...deposit in northwestern Argentina is thought to be an analogue to the Miocene polymetallic epithermal...origin and evolution of ore-forming ﬂuids at Pirquitas. This paper reports on a microthermometric study...mineralization event II deposited the richest Ag ores at Pirquitas. Colloform sphalerite and pyrargyrite deposited

Breccia from Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina

Breccia from
Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina