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Pyrite from
Bajo de la Alumbrera Mine, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz6 photos of Pyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Bornite2 photos of Pyrite associated with Bornite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Chalcanthite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Chalcanthite at this locality.
Molybdenite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Molybdenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bajo de la Alumbrera Mine, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176151
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176151:1
GUID (UUID V4):7a29d4df-e86c-40b8-ae33-f4378afebdd1
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
4.3km (2.7 miles) La Blende deposit, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
6.6km (4.1 miles) Bajo El Durazno Cu deposit, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
8.0km (5.0 miles) Esperanza South-East Vein, Alto de la Blenda, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
8.1km (5.0 miles) Bajo de Agua Tapada Cu deposit, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
8.6km (5.3 miles) Farallón Negro, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
9.7km (6.1 miles) Bajo de San Lucas Cu deposit, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
21.3km (13.3 miles) La Argentina vein, Capillitas mining district, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
21.4km (13.3 miles) Nueva Esperanza vein, Capillitas mining district, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
21.8km (13.5 miles) Ortiz vein, Capillitas mining district, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
21.8km (13.6 miles) La Rosario vein, Capillitas mining district, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Breccia-Hosted Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit at Agua Rica, Argentina: Progressive Unroofing of a Magmatic Hydrothermal... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of...Farallón Negro Volcanic Complex in northwestern Argentina. The Agua Rica deposit lies next to the contact...mineralization (molybdenite, chalcopyrite ± bornite ± pyrite). The present alteration and mineralization pattern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CAPILLITAS, CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA: DESCRIPTION AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE WERNER H. PAAR§ Department of Geography...Bern, Switzerland DAN TOPA AND GEORG ZAGLER Department of Geography, Geology and Mineralogy, University...Capillitas mining district, Department of Andalgalá, Catamarca Province, Argentina. The Capillitas diatreme...is host to large porphyry Cu–Au deposits (Bajo de la Alumbrera, Agua Rica) and genetically related epithermal...discovered the new species during field work in Catamarca, for his significant contribution to the mineralogy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonate–base metal–gold vein system: Alto de la Blenda, Farallón Negro, Argentina M. Florencia Márquez-Zavalía 1...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 Abstract Alto de la Blenda is a ∼6.6-Ma intermediatesulphidation epithermal...hosts the 7.1-Ma porphyry– Cu–Au deposit of Bajo de la Alumbrera. The epithermal vein system is characterised...emplacement at Bajo de la Alumbrera, which is in turn cut by minor epithermal veins. The Alto de la Blenda vein...Mn-rich carbonates and quartz, with a few percent of pyrite, sphalerite, galena and other sulphide and sulphosalt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
transition in the Agua Rica polymetallic deposit, Catamarca, Argentina: An integrated petrologic analysis of ore... Abel Isidoro Schalamuk a, e a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad...(8300) Neuquén, Argentina Centro Patagónico de Estudios Metalogenéticos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad...Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, (8300) Neuquén, Argentina Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick...Instituto de Recursos Minerales, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(U–Th)/He chronometers, Bajo de la Alumbrera copper–gold deposit, Argentina Anthony C. Harris & W. James...porphyry intrusions at the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry copper–gold deposit, Argentina, reveals a complex history...Australia P. W. Reiners Geology and Geophysics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA...Brisbane, Australia Present address: P. W. Reiners Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...that the multiple porphyritic intrusions at Bajo de la Alumbrera were emplaced during two episodes, the first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SULFIDE MINERAL SPECIES FROM CAPILLITAS, CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA: DESCRIPTION, PARAGENESIS AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE...STRUCTURE HUBERT PUTZ§, WERNER H. PAAR AND DAN TOPA Department of Material Science (Mineralogy), University...dumps near the La Rosario vein, Capillitas epithermal deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina. The new mineral...unknown. Catamarcaite is named after the Province of Catamarca, where the new mineral species was found...kiddcreekite, La Rosario vein, Capillitas deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina. SOMMAIRE La catamarcaïte
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of the Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit at Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina THOMAS ULRICH,†,* ETH Zürich, Isotope...history of Bajo de la Alumbrera, a world-class porphyry copper-gold deposit in northwestern Argentina. The...andesites. Feldspar-destructive alteration (sericite + pyrite ± clay minerals ± gypsum) overprints the potassic...and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...regular alteration zonation, Bajo de la Alumbrera in northwestern Argentina has been regarded as a textbook
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of the Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit at Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina THOMAS ULRICH,†,* ETH Zürich, Isotope...history of Bajo de la Alumbrera, a world-class porphyry copper-gold deposit in northwestern Argentina. The...andesites. Feldspar-destructive alteration (sericite + pyrite ± clay minerals ± gypsum) overprints the potassic...and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...regular alteration zonation, Bajo de la Alumbrera in northwestern Argentina has been regarded as a textbook
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Agua Rica prospect, Catamarca Province, Argentina: an example of deposit evaluation based on net smelter...Agua Rica copper– gold–molybdenum prospect in Argentina. Exploration data had been made available by the...in the Catamarca Province, northwest Argentina, some 30 km north of the small town of Andalgalá (and 35...east of the recently commissioned Bajo de la Alumbrera copper–gold mine (Fig. 1). Fig. 2 View of prospect...Trampeadero, into metasediments of Lower Palaeozoic age. Pyrite is dominant with chalcopyrite and bornite as the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyry Cu-Au association at Bajo de la Alumbrera, Catamarca Province, Argentina D. Miiller 1'* and P. Forrestal...1997; accepted September 2, 1998 Summary Bajo de la Alumbrera forms an example of a series of world class...rocks. The Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry coppergold deposit is situated in the Catamarca Province of Northwest-Argentina...Northwest-Argentina and belongs to the ten largest copper mines in the world; it is also one of the largest...445ppm, and 610ppm, respectively), moderate LREE (La <73 ppm and Ce < 140ppm ), and low HFSE (TiO2 <0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Agua Rica Cu-Au Porphyry-Epithermal Deposit, NW Argentina Maurício L. Borba, Colombo C. G. Tassinari, Jason...Agua Rica Cu-Au Porphyry-Epithermal Deposit, NW Argentina, Ore Geology Reviews (2020), doi: https://doi...Rica Cu-Au Porphyry-Epithermal 3 Deposit, NW Argentina 4 Maurício L. Borba¹, Colombo C. G. Tassinari¹...Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 05508- 6 080 7 ²Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson...± 0.25 respectively. Rhenium-Os 22 dating of pyrite from the Trampeadero porphyry yielded an isochron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochronology of regional volcanism hosting the Bajo de la Alumbrera Cu–Au deposit: implications for porphyry-related...of the earliest mineralized porphyries at Bajo de la Alumbrera (8.02±0.14 and 7.98±0.14 Ma). Regional uplift...shortly before renewed magmatism occurred at Bajo de la Alumbrera (7.10±0.07 Ma). The latest porphyry intrusive...synchronously with the mineralized porphyries at Bajo de la Alumbrera. However, their emplacement continued (from...93±0.07 Ma) after the final intrusion at Bajo de al Alumbrera. Regional volcanism had ceased by 6.8 Ma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
   The bajo de la alumbrera and Agua Rica Cu-Au (Mo) porphyry deposits of Argentina: Genetic constraints...Matheus, The bajo de la alumbrera and Agua Rica Cu-Au (Mo) porphyry deposits of Argentina: Genetic constraints...MANUSCRIPT The Bajo de la Alumbrera and Agua Rica Cu-Au (Mo) porphyry deposits of Argentina: genetic constraints... SC R Babinski3, Matheus Bruckman1 1 Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do...RS, 91501-970, Brazil 2 Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 100, pp. 863–886 Bajo de la Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit: Stable Isotope Evidence...HARRIS,†,* SUZANNE D. GOLDING, AND NOEL C. WHITE Department of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland,...at the gold-rich Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry copper deposit in northwestern Argentina are centered on...argillic alteration assemblage (chlorite-illite ± pyrite) has overprinted the potassic alteration zone across...outward into phyllic (quartzmuscovite-illite ± pyrite) alteration. This study contributes new data to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epithermal, and orogenic gold prospectivity of Argentina A. Ford a,b,⁎, S.G. Hagemann a, A.S. Fogliata...Fundación Miguel Lillo, University of Tucumán, Argentina d Troy Resources Ltd., 214 King Street West, Suite...Accepted 18 May 2015 Available online xxxx Keywords: Argentina Gold Prospectivity mapping a b s t r a c t This...porphyry, epithermal, and orogenic gold districts in Argentina, including the tectonic, geological, and structural...epithermal and orogenic gold mineralization in Argentina. The results of the prospectivity mapping highlight
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Silicic Magmas at Bajo de la Alumbrera Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, NW Argentina Anthony C. HARRIS, Vadim...2004 Abstract: At the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit, NW Argentina, several key textural...spar) through to late phyllic (quartz-sericite±pyrite) alteration assemblages, with Cu mineralization...porphyritic intrusions at the Bajo de la Alumbrera deposit, NW Argentina. These textures preserve evidence...hydrothermal systems. 2. The Bajo de la Alumbrera Deposit The Bajo de la Alumbrera deposit occurs in the Farallón
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1535–1574 Geology of the Bajo de la Alumbrera Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Argentina JOHN M. PROFFETT† P...Alaska 99577 Abstract The Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Argentina, is in the eastern Andes...overlie a low-angle segment of the subduction zone. Alumbrera, now above the transition from steep to flat subduction...consisting mostly of veinlet-controlled sericite-quartz-pyrite, is younger than all secondary K-feldspar, biotite...inside and outside this shell. Pyrite veins with sericite-quartz-pyrite alteration cut Postmineral porphyries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold-Rich Porphyry Copper Deposits R. H. Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial...gin/ton gold are briefly described from northwest Argentina, northwest Pakistan, the Intermontane belt of...studies of the Saindak, Pakistan, and Bajo de La Alumbrera, Argentina, porphyry copper deposits and examinations...around copper-gold cores at both Saindak and Bajo de La Alumbrera precludes the rigorous application of this...arbitrarily I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. BAJODE LA ALUMBRERA, Argentina. SAINDAK{South Body), PQkiston. CARIBOO-BELL
Report (chapter)
Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of...Volcanic Complex hosting the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit (Argentina), and supplementary fluid-chemical...granite-related Sn-W system (Aud6tat et al. 1998, 2000), LA-ICPMS has been used for studying several porphyry-type...in the Farall6n Negro Volcanic Complex in NW Argentina (Fig. 2), where detailed geological data about...compositional evolution of ore fluids in the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au-(Mo) deposit (Sasso & Clark
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposit, Based on LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Fluid Inclusions: Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina THOMAS ULRICH,†... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zentrum NO, 8092 Zürich... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zentrum NO, 8092 Zürich...the porphyry Cu-Au deposit of Bajo de la Alumbrera (northwestern Argentina) has been reconstructed with...ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) are combined to determine the evolution of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposit, Based on LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Fluid Inclusions: Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina THOMAS ULRICH,†... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zentrum NO, 8092 Zürich... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zentrum NO, 8092 Zürich...the porphyry Cu-Au deposit of Bajo de la Alumbrera (northwestern Argentina) has been reconstructed with...ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) are combined to determine the evolution of
Book (edition)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23051-1 David I. Groves Department of Geology and Geophysics Centre for Exploration...Mineral Deposits (former ARC Key Centre) within the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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...8.5 Shoshonitic Lamprophyres from the Superior Province, Canada (Archean) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
Chile Las Condes, Santiago Chile David I. Groves Department of Geology and Geophysics, Centre for Exploration...Mineral Deposits (former ARC Key Centre) within the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of...Edition incorporates new data and references from Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.2 Bajo de La Alumbrera Copper-Gold
Book (edition)
Australia Centre for Strategic Mineral Deposits Department of Geology and Geophysics Nedlands, W.A. 6907...Australia The cover shows an overview of the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry copper-gold deposit before the...Mineral Deposits (former ARC Key Centre) within the Department of Geology and Geophysics at The University of...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Associations. Bajo de la Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . Bingham Copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyry gold deposit in the Southern Puna plateau, Argentina Valeria Simón, Marcelo Arnosio, Robert B. Trumbull...porphyry gold deposit in the Southern Puna plateau, Argentina, Journal of South American Earth Sciences (2020)...gold deposit in the 2 Southern Puna plateau, Argentina 3 VALERIA SIMÓN1,*, MARCELO ARNOSIO1, ROBERT...(CP 4400), Argentina * corresponding author: simon.valeria.ester@gmail.com Instituto de Bio y Geociencias...(IBIGEO, UNSa-CONICET), Av. 9 de Julio 14, A4405BBA, Salta, Argentina German Research Centre for Geosciences
 
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