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Chalcopyrite from
Toro Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Toro Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:137796
Long-form Identifier:1:3:137796:5
GUID (UUID V4):ddb8ec89-2239-4483-8e0f-dacf205dafb1
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Coronas Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico
0.0km (0.0 miles) Cuchara Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico
0.0km (0.0 miles) Guadalupe Arcos Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico
0.0km (0.0 miles) Guadalupe y San Juan Bautista Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico
0.0km (0.0 miles) Carboncillo Mine, Zacualpán, Zacualpán Municipality, Mexico, Mexico
28.1km (17.5 miles) Chontalpan, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
28.1km (17.5 miles) Agua Bendita Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
28.1km (17.5 miles) Espiritu Santo Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
28.1km (17.5 miles) San Antonio Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
28.4km (17.6 miles) Guerrero I Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
References
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Report (issue)
of the Zimapan Mining District, State of Hidalgo Mexico By FRANK S. SIMONS and EDUARDO MAPES V. GEOLOGICAL...para la Investigation de Recur so s Miner ales of Mexico, under the auspices of the Technical Cooperation...Arcabuz prospect________________________ Buenavista mine _ __________!______________ Guadalupe adit._-__...Sangre mine____ _____________________ El Resquicio mine __________________________ La Salvadora prospect...Chiquihuites mine.____________________ Concepci6n mine_____-__.:____--__-__-Concordia mine.__ __________________
Report (issue)
California and Vetas mining district (continued) Mine investigations.............................. 47................................... 51 Tembladal Mine........................................ 52 Cerro................................... 55 Tembladal Mine........................................ 55 Hacienda................................... 59 Machacuta Mine........................................ 61 El..................................... 61 Alcohol Mine.......................................... 62 Iron
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico and to the three people who directly affected me and this project
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...a. ie = Maes Lie Auadado = ae MINERALS OF MEXICO Vv | Oona tA. IMPORTANT MINING DISTRICTS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
helvite. Ore minerals include sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite. Hydrothermal alteration is...the principal veins (San Cristóbal, San Pedro, El Toro, Elisa, Bateas, Trinidad, and La Leona; Fig. 2)...open folds have been recognized within the Caylloma mine. A thick volcanic sequence of the Tacaza Group unconformably...Geology by authors Chavez, Escobedo, Echavarría, and mine staff geologists. Projected coordinate system is...and discontinuous, highgrade veins, and include El Toro, San Pedro, Bateas, Santa Cata, Trinidad, and Carolina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry copper deposits account for 60% of the world's mine production of copper and constitute 80% of ore reserves...(1988) Sillitoe et al. (1984) SA c C KS Cuajone Toro Mocho X 43. Quellaveco 44. Michiquillay X X ...Abra Arsenopyrite c X SAI 33. Red Mountain Mexico 34. La Caridad Enargite X s SAI SA SA SA...the top, although information from drillholes and mine exposures is more limited. Sulfide zoning usually...with high chalcopyrite/ pyrite ratios, and (3) an outer high-sulfide zone with low chalcopyrite/pyrite ratios
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Churrumata 300 680 Chisperos, Floridor, Socorro, Toro Perlas: 295 calcite, kaolinitc Bahamondes Bahamondes...Propylitic, adularia, Toro: 325, calcite, kaolinitc Bahamondes:330, Chisperos: 310 Socorro, Toro Unitsof the...Gold Hematite ß" ................. Spha[er•te Chalcopyrite Galena Fluid inclusions Typesla + II Type...Increasingabundancefrom Toro-Socorroto Churrumata-TresPerias (2): Decreasingabundancefrom Toro-Socorroto Churrumata-TresPerias...range in response to rockfracturing andporosity(e.g.,Toro,So- of 5 to 6 g/t Au,eventhoughthe oxidation zonemaylocally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as Providencia (Mexico), Casapalca (Peru), Creede (USA) or Cerro del Toro (Spain) (Sawkins, 1964;...are related to the frontal parts of tiny solid chalcopyrite inclusions deposited on (111) sphalerite growth...described by Sawkins (1964) for the Providencia mine. Acute-angled irregular inclusions occur trapped...disposed, dark zone of chalcopyrite dust from which tiny, µm-sized chalcopyrite needles and “bead chains”...inclusions are a typical manifestation of the “chalcopyrite disease”, generally interpreted to be the result
Report (volume)
________________________________________ Los Mantos mine--_.-___-_--_____-____-_____-_-_---_____-_Champurria...pocket 21. Geologic map of the 170 level, Los Mantos mine, Punitaqui, Chile____________________________________________...pocket 22. Geologic map of the 250 level, Los Mantos mine, Punitaqui, Chile___________________________________________...Mantos mine, Punitaqui, Chile. _____ In pocket 24. Geologic map of the 330 adit, Los Mantos mine, Punitaqui... Geologic maps of exploration adits, Los Mantos mine, Punitaqui, Chile_______-_____---_---_-----_---_---_
Book (volume)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, MEXICO The Geology of North America O r > W 4^ *1^ ^ ^ \ \ f ax4 u \ \...of North America Volume P-3 Economic Geology^ Mexico Edited by Guillermo P. Salas Geologo Consultor...Centro Minero Nacional Carretera Mexico-Pachuca Pachuca, Hgo., Mexico, D.F. 1991 EXPLORATION LIBRARY...reserved. Geologia economica de Mexico. English. Economic geology, Mexico / edited by Guillermo P. Salas...; v. P-3) Translation of Geologia economica de Mexico. Includes bibliography references and index. ISBN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leaching Chalcocite in Chloride Media—A Review Norman Toro 1, * , Carlos Moraga 2 , David Torres 1 , Manuel...Pérez 3 1 2 3 4 *   Citation: Toro, N.; Moraga, C.; Torres, D.; Saldaña, M.; Pérez...minerals and a minor part to oxidized minerals. Chalcopyrite is the most abundant among the sulfide copper...leaching processes [8]. In the natural mineral, chalcopyrite is commonly associated with secondary sulfides... Minerals 2021, 11, 1197 2 of 15 such as chalcopyrite [20–22], being also the main component of the
Book
K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District................................. Minerals of Ojuela Mine .... . Velardena District......................
Report (issue)
SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO By Kenneth R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey...Figure 4. of Mineral Deposits in Northwestern Mexico Los Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District... Preliminary Deposit-Type Map of Northwestern Mexico Kenneth R. Leonard Introduction The following...California and the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico. The area is important for the evaluation or mineral...prospects, and mineral occurrences in northwest Mexico. A record may refer to one deposit or to a group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consists mainly of disseminated and/or vein-related chalcopyrite within the central potassic alteration zone...SerenaO • Andl~tcoll0 I q • Porphyry Cu mine Epithermal Au-Ag• Cu mine [] Miocenevolcanic rocks t,,, 300...and Cerro Negro de Chorillos (Calama-Olacapato-E1 Toro Lineament), Cerro Galan Caldera (Archibarca Lineament)...Farallon Negro Formation also hosts a rhodochrosite mine at Capillitas, producing gemquality material. Porphyry... 1995). The only hypogene copper mineral is chalcopyrite (Guilbert, 1995). The central potassic alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic fluids and gold from, 423;--, Mt. lsa, chalcopyrite ore from, 4 5 ; - - , New England fold belt...polycrystalline pyrite ores from, 2 9 ; - - , Woods Mine, namansilite occurrences from, 533 Austroalpine...preferred orientation of experimentally deformed chalcopyrite, 45 CHAMPNESS,P.E., 141,665 CHANG,L.L.Y., 515...crystal growth rates, 337 Cosalite, from Dunjeon gold mine, Korea, 515 Cotectic, textures in a St, REE-rich...540 ENGLAND, Cornwall, sodium-zippeite from Geevor Mine, 352;--, Cumbria, brianyoungite from, 665;--, first
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label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Greatest Known Concentration of Copper Juan Carlos Toro, Javier Ortúzar, Jorge Zamorano, Paticio Cuadra... Irarrazaval, V., Sillitoe, R.H., Wilson, A.J., Toro, J.C., Robles, W., and Lyall, G.D., 2010, Discovery...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore...high sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Chile (mine now exhausted). 1971: First formal recognition
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...Hampden Co., Mass. The best specimens occur at the Old Mine. Michigan—A nice dark grayish cephalopod from the...massive milky quartz, from the abandoned Dodge gold mine, at Lyman, Grafton Co., N . H., was donated to R...locality some few months ago and reports that the Dodge mine has a tunnel with tram track, quite an extensive...showing quite a number of metallic minerals. Chalcopyrite is abundant, some galena cubes, and I think
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the alteration types and ore paragenesis. Chalcopyrite is the most abundant Cu sulfide in Río Blanco...million. The highest concentration of Ag in chalcopyrite is associated with the high-temperature potassic...alteration stage. Bornite is less abundant than chalcopyrite but has the highest Ag concentration of all...sericite), opposite to the behavior of Ag in chalcopyrite. Pyrite has the lowest Ag content, although...veinlets and where the predominant sulfides are chalcopyrite and bornite. Silver mineralization during this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Encinas y Rosales S/N, Col. Centro, Hermosillo 83000, Mexico Institute Technology of Saltillo, Department of...Metallurgy and Materials Science, Saltillo 25280, Mexico Correspondence: carlos.soto@unison.mx (J.C.S.-U...11], or ultrafine grinding [12,13]. The Velardeña mine is in Durango State, wherein the gold concentrate...pyrite gold concentrate was provided by La Velardeña Mine. The sample was homogenized and screened using 100...reconstruction of the gold concentrate. Compounds Chalcopyrite Galena Sphalerite Pyrite Arsenopyrite Quartz
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)
s distributed exemplifiedby their relationswith Toro and Socorro widelyandcropsoutin thecentralandeastern...Mineralizationishostedby volcanic the six, the Cerro Toro Member and the Andacollo rocksofandesiticandda...irregularapophyses and copper mineralization. The Cerro Toro Member smallstocksof Andacolloporphyry.The mineraliza-...CHILE 1307 chalcopyrite with moderate amountsof hematite, is accompaniedby chalcopyrite,sphalerite,galena...enrichment veal that the gold is located in pyrite, chalcopyrite blanket(Llaumettet al., 1975; Marquardt,1980)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PascoCorporation'smines,particularlyfrom the Morocochamine. This mine is servedby four shaftsand severaladits and is developed...Morocochaare enargite,tetrahedrite-tennantite, chalcopyrite,galena,and sphalerite. Bornite and corellite...the Tertiary Rio Blancoformation. The lowermost mine level is 3,500 feet below the outcrop. McKinstry...Lindgren'smesothermaldepth-temperaturezone. Enargite, chalcopyrite,and tetrahedriteare the dominantore minerals...thedistrict. Minor quantitiesof molybdenite, chalcopyrite andscheelite are in disseminations and smallveinlets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2,500 t of Mo per year. The Los Bronces open-pit mine produces annually 400,000 t of fine copper and 2...4 Ma, for ca. 2 Ma (Deckart et al. 2005, 2013). Toro et al. (2009) presented a slightly wider age range...breccias at Los Bronces from 14 to 4 Ma. Toro et al. (2007); Toro et al. 2012) constrained the main hydrothermal...Río Blanco cluster so far. From the LB open-pit mine, which 538 Miner Deposita (2014) 49:535–546 ...with two feldspar types and with disseminated chalcopyrite-pyrite yielded a crystallization age of 6.02±0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
breccias, dacites, trachytes Cerro Negro 300 Cerro Toro 680 (base) Copper–gold veins Manto and vein gold...Institution of Mining and Metallurgy 2000. The Cerro Toro unit rests on top of the volcaniclastic facies of...modern operations in Chile, comprising an open-pit mine and integrated bacterial leaching–solvent extra...paragenesis includes as primary minerals major pyrite, chalcopyrite, hematite and magnetite and minor bornite, pyrrhotite...are found in the lowest stratigraphic unit (Cerro Toro), some 4 km westward from the Andacollo porphyry
 
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