 | | Book | | Gemstonesof Peru . TO ' ..J.O[_)(ON '\J./ITI1 KY Be-51 R~GAF-P5 f JaroslavHyrsl Gemstonesof...Gemstonesof Peru GRflnil © 2012 Text by Jaroslav Hyr~I © 2012 Photos by Jaroslav Hycll (166), Fidel Salinas...photo: Rhodochrosite crystals withfluorite from Uchucchacua, 5 cm high. Col/. and photo J Hyrsl. Turquoise...earings, Moche period, diameter 10cm. © MUSEO LARCO in Lima, No. 100849. Faceted scheelite from Turmalina, 8...turquoise pectoral, size 50 x 21 cm. © MUSEO LARCO in Lima, No. 100184. 3: Andean opa/ from Acarí, rough 9 |  | Bussell, M. Andrew, Alpers, Charles N., Petersen, Ulrich, Shepherd, Thomas J., Bermudez, Carlos, Baxter, Alistair N. (1990) The Ag-Mn-Pb-Zn vein, replacement, and skarn deposits of Uchucchacua, Peru; studies of structure, mineralogy, metal zoning, Sr isotopes, and fluid inclusions. Economic Geology, 85 (7) 1348-1383 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.85.7.1348 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ag-Mn-Pb-ZnVein, Replacement,and SkarnDepositsof Uchucchacua,Peru: Studiesof Structure, Mineralogy, Metal Zoning...Buenaventura, S.A., Carlos Villaran 790, Santa Catalina, Lima 13, Perd AND ALISTAIR N. BAXTER Schoolof Earth...BiglandStreet,LondonE1 2NG, UnitedKingdom Abstract Uchucchacua is anAg-Mn-Pb-Znvein,replacement, andskarnmineraldistrictin...andskarnmineraldistrictin the central Andesof Peru. Host rocksare massiveJumashaFormationshelflimestonesof Turonianage...introduced; principalsulfidesare pyrrhotite,Fe-rich sphalerite,Mn-rich wurtzite, alabandite,galena, chalcopyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pohwatp@si.edu Alabandite Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province Lima Department, Peru T he Swedish chemist Carl...rhodochrosite from the Uchucchacua mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru; the largest individual...the fantastic find of alabandites from the Uchucchacua mine. In the United States the western states have...produced specimens of particular note, the Lucky Cuss mine, located near Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona...micromount enthusiast the Sunnyside mine, in the Silverton district of San Juan County, Colorado, has produced |  | | Journal (issue) | | TSKnerals of i'eru ! Indian miner, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1869 (Simonin, 1869). J3E(mes and J3E(merals...crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection; Jeff Scovil............................... History of Peru Mining in Peru The Mineral Specimen Business C o l l e c....................... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La Libertad PASTO.......................... Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u r a -H u |  | | Catalog/List | | good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...00 eaoh. CLEANED COPPER AND MALACHITE: Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: I've had these for a few years...ENARGITE, BOURNONITE, PYRITE, GALENA, SPHALERITE: Various localities, Peru: Check out our Peruvian pages to...spent the past three years living and working in Peru and had just moved back with all the goodies he...juat collected this spring immediately before the mine was closed for refilling and reolalmlng. There will |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A SpecialIssueDevoted to the Mineral Depositsof Peru Preface ULRICH PETERSEN, Departmentof Earth and...VIDAL, PerubarS.A.,Juan de Arona 830 (Of 90I), Lima 27, Peru AND DONALD C. NOBLE MackaySchoolof Mines,...and Inca wealth canbe seenin the Museo de Oro in Lima. After the readily availablepreciousmetalswere...iso,rosicler),silver-bearinggalena(soroche), sphalerite (chumbe), and cinnabar (paria, 111mpi), as well...wasmostlyusedfor the treatment of silver and gold ores in Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico (RodriguezHoyle, 1974). In |  | Keutsch, Frank N., Topa, Dan, Fredrickson, Rie Takagi, Makovicky, Emil, Paar, Werner H. (2019) Agmantinite, Ag2MnSnS4, a new mineral with a wurtzite derivative structure from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (2) 233-238 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.139 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | derivative structure from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru FRANK N. KEUTSCH1,*, DAN...from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. It occurs...type that is derived from wurtzite rather than sphalerite by ordered substitution of Zn, analogous to the...substitution pattern for deriving stannite from sphalerite. The six strongest X-ray powder-diffraction lines...diffraction data, wurtzite, stannite, Uchucchacua deposit, Peru. Introduction There are numerous minerals |  | Bonazzi, P., Keutsch, F. N., Bindi, L. (2012) Manganoquadratite, AgMnAsS3, a new manganese-bearing sulfosalt from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru: Description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1199-1205 doi:10.2138/am.2012.4004 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | manganese-bearing sulfosalt from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru: Description and crystal...from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. It occurs...associated with alabandite, Mn-rich calcite, Mn-rich sphalerite, proustite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, tennantite, argentotennantite... X‑ray diffraction data, quadratite, Uchucchacua deposit, Peru Introduction For a long time, the only...samples from an Ag-Pb-Zn mine within the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit (Peru). Recently, two other Mn-bearing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wire Silver Kongsberg, Norway Wire Gold Ground Hog Mine, Gilman, Colorado S ince the dawn of civilization...gold, 11.7 cm tall, from the Ground Hog mine, Gillman district, Eagle County, Colorado. Harvard Mineralogical...native silver production, the Freiberg mining district of Saxony, Germany, is far older and equally famous...years. It was in fact German miners (of the Harz district), because of their already historic experience...Kongsberg (Johnsen 1986). The Freiberg mining district is a network of veins hosted in the crystalline |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon Province, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. 2.710 (100), 1...44 28.80 100.00 (1) Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru; average of 9 electron...Association: Alabandite, Mn-rich calcite, Mn-rich sphalerite, proustite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, tennantite, argentotennantite...From the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon Province, Catajambo Region, Lima Department, Peru. Name:...manganese-bearing sulfosalt from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru: Description and crystal |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. 3.11 (vs), 3.51...25.25 100.25 (1) Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru; average electron...kutnohorite, sphalerite, Pb-Sb-As-S minerals. Distribution: From the Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo...Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. Name: For its composition, Ag for silver, man for manganese, and tin....derivative structure from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru. Mineral. Mag, 83, 233-238 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization...quality rubyred rhodochrosite at the Sweet Home Mine is nearly pure manganese carbonate with minimal | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization...quality rubyred rhodochrosite at the Sweet Home Mine is nearly pure manganese carbonate with minimal |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | soluAdditional information on the intricate from Uchucchacua. Dan Weinrich Minerals tion. Complete solid solution...suggestionsfor this colunrn and c m be from Uchucchacua, Peru. Stuart Wilensky specimen, Jeff Scovil contacted... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Pelt photo. March/April: Calcite, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Terry E. Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil...photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum...Scovil photo. September/October:Gold, Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History...Barker, D. L., Fluorescent Gibbsite fromYunnan Province, China, 110-11 Behuninia, Utah, 235 Beidellite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Teil IV• Rother Kopf/Vulkaneifel • Neue Funde in Peru 2010-2014 • Lava CapThundereggs von Deming, New...Showreport 12 Über die neuen Mineralienfunde in Peru 26 Einschlüsse in Quarz (4) 54 Die „vergessenen...Titelbi ld zeigt Pyrit-Kristalle van der Pucarrajo Mine in Peru . Höhe der Stufe 4 cm . Sammlung K. & M. Proctor...2014 von der Chino Mine in New Mexiko (5150 Bench, East Pit, Townsite Island, Chino Mine bei Bayard, Grant...der bekannten Pyromorphit-Fundstelle der Yangshuo Mine im Kreis Yangshuo der Provinz Guangxi Zhuang A.R |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | assemblages of both major types consist of coexisting sphalerite, galena, pyrite with quartz, sericite and carbonates...sediment-hosted and skarn-replacement ores. Sphalerite chemistry Sphalerite exhibits a wide range of optical and...Barnes 1971). The chemical c o m p o s i tion of sphalerite coexisting with pyrite was d e t e r m i n e...t e r . The e r r o r in the iron content of sphalerite is less t h a n 0.2 tool % FeS. O n statistical...varieties. In most cases, the iron content of single sphalerite grains and between grains of the same sample |  | | Report (issue) | | 5.6 cm, from the Lily mine near Pisco, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru. Trinity Minerals specimen;...clinoatacamite in the Lily mine, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru. In 1998 this copper mine began giving up...and he landed the two superb miniatures of Lily mine clinoatacamite now offered on his site (trinityminerals...Zirconolite, 1.2 cm, from Kyauk Tha Mountain, Mogok district, Myanmar. Trinity Minerals specimen; John Veevaert...alluvial deposit near Kyauk Tha Mountain, Mogok district, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma). John says |  | | Catalog/List | | in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst in Creede, Colorado, azurite and...Kevin Ward Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly...years to find a specimen rhombs rhombs Climax Mine, ot rhodochrosite $50 OOU 60.000 Ex The ... 8 nn ae from the \ slight ¢ « nax 1g Mine : The Kevin Ward Mineral Exceptional German |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...photo. Benitoite on natrolite, 5.5 cm, Dallas Gern mine, San Benito County, California. Ex Robert Gill collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Cajatambo, Lima Department, Peru. The structure...zone of the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Cajatambo, Lima Department, Peru, a complex...of view 1.6 cm deposit, Oyon district, Cajatambo, Lima Department, Peru. Spryite is associated with proustite...study of a silver and manganese-rich zone of the Uchucchacua polymetallic A preliminary chemical analysis...mineralization of the Capillitas deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina (Putz et al. 2002; Putz 2005), associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | POLYMETALLIC AND ASSOCIATED MINERALIZATION BELT OF CENTRAL PERU ' PIERRE SOLER InstitutFrancais deRecherche Scientifique...ig- riods of polymetallic mineralizationin central peru neousactivity,both effusiveand intrusive,and the...polymetallicbelt of cha district, located a few kilometers northeast of central Peru (Petersen, 1965; Bellido...marginalChuncommonin southernPeru (e.g., Noble et al., 1984) gar district, located in the middle part of the belt and in...normal middle ognized in the cordillera of central Peru. In this Miocene age. generalarea, a considerablenumber |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...masses to 1 cm are reported from the Johnny Bull mine, Silver Plume. It occurs with a variety of other...other silver minerals in mines of the Rico district, Dolores County, where it has been found as small hexagonal |  | | Journal (issue) | | of the Champion Mine. The mine was managed by Copper Range Company. The Champion Mine had six shafts at...still in operation in 1930. During the 1930s the mine was working the 48th level, 4,800 feet from the...Champion Mine was one of the largest and richest copper mines in the Lake Superior region. The mine produced...between 1899 and 1925. During this same period, the mine paid $29,070,261 in dividends. Figure 1: View of...around 1929. The mine operated for nearly 65 years before closing in 1967. The mine was one of the longest |
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