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Sphalerite from
Fortuna mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fortuna mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1316167
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1316167:5
GUID (UUID V4):2b40d123-dbb0-4eff-9724-424e69b0ab9e
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘMargarita Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
4.9km (3.1 miles) ⓘMadona Mine, Madona area, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
8.7km (5.4 miles) ⓘSan Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
21.1km (13.1 miles) ⓘPalomo mines, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
31.8km (19.8 miles) ⓘTeresita Mine, Huachocolpa District, Huancavelica Province, Huancavelica, Peru
35.7km (22.2 miles) ⓘEsperanza 2001 Mine, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru
43.1km (26.8 miles) ⓘFlor de Peru I claim (Tentadora Mine), Mt Ullpac (Mt Ollupac), Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
53.1km (33.0 miles) ⓘJulcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru
75.1km (46.7 miles) ⓘAlmacen Cu-Mo deposit, Chincha Province, Ica, Peru
83.5km (51.9 miles) ⓘMina Eliana, Quebrada Rio Seco, Humay District, Pisco Province, Ica, Peru
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describes his recent visits to a small former fluorite mine 2.5 kilometers north of the village of Mihalkovo...border with Greece. Until its closure in 1994 this mine produced fluorite for industrial uses, and, it seems...siderite and sphalerite after calcite, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...===ï‚„ Siderite/Sphalerite epimorphs after calcite, 14.2 cm, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern...Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Via Mineralia specimen and photo. For this friuitful season, Rudolf
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zoning and gold occurrence in the Fortuna skarn mine, Nambija district, Ecuador Received: 24 February 2005...May 2006 # Springer-Verlag 2006 Abstract The Fortuna oxidized gold skarn deposit is located in the northern...northern part of the Nambija gold district, southern Ecuador. It has been subdivided into four mineralized...which are named from north to south: Cuerpo 3, Mine 1, Mine 2, and Southern Sector. Massive skarn bodies...intrusion which crops out below the skarn bodies in Mine 2 and the Southern Sector. Endoskarn alteration
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Huayhuash, Peru Prepared in cooperation with the Ministerio de Fomento, Instituto Geologico del Peru, under...CORDILLERA BLANCA AND NORTHERN CORDILLERA HUAYHUASH, PERU By ALFRED J. BODENLOS and GEORGE E. ERICKSEN ABSTRACT...Silver-bearing galena concentrate is the chief product. Sphalerite either is not mined or is discarded because its...sulflde minerals in the deposits are galena, sphalerite, and pyrite; chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite-teunantite...bodies in most deposits precludes larger scale mining or mechanizations of operations, and it is concluded
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LONG-LIVED HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM IN THE FRESNILLO SILVER DISTRICT, MEXICO: CONSTRAINTS FROM 40Ar/39Ar GEOCHRONOLOGY...Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 2New...and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico...and dikes are the youngest igneous rocks in the district. Spatial association of Tertiary volcanic rocks...sulfate alteration, and epithermal veins makes the district ideal for evaluating the temporal relations between
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1‱88, pp. 1583-1596 Ore Deposits at the Fresnillo Mine, Zacatecas,Mexico DELFINO C. RUVALCABA-RUIZ PasajeE...Chimneyand mantobodiescontainpyrite, pyrrhotite,sphalerite,chalcopyrite,galena, tetrahedrite,marcasite,arsenopyrite...proustitc,miargyrite,polybasite, tetrahedrite,galena,sphalerite,and chalcopyrite.Individualveinsexhibitincreasingsilver...values,with galenadepletedin 34Swith respectto sphalerite. Galenab34S valuesfromall deposittypesat Fresnillovarybetween-4...surface)level. Introduction hills, Loma de la Fortuna, Cerro Proafio, and Cerro Populo, with reliefs
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Silver Peru SAC, Av. La Floresta 497, Of. 301, Chacarilla del Estanque, San Borja, Lima, Peru A. Markowski...Aslund 1998). The Nambija oxidized gold skarn district is one of the main gold producers of Ecuador (see...40 km west of the Peruvian border (Fig. 1). The district includes several mines detailed in Fig. 1 and...The results of previous studies on the Nambija district (Vallance et al. 2003; Fontboté et al. 2004; Markowski...mineralogical zonation has been observed at the mine scale, except at Fortuna. The main ore mineral associated with
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ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING by Eldred D. Wilson, J. B. Cunningham, and G. M. Butler Bulletin...Arizona Tucson ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING by Eldred D. Wilson, J. B. Cunningham, and G. M...Mines Bulletin No. 137, ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND MINING, was originally issued in 1934 in response to the...and, in view of the restrictions placed on gold mining during the war, it was not considered necessary...which deals with the laws and regulations governing mining, however, have been deleted, inasmuch as many of
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