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Marcasite from
San Rafael Mine, Melgar Province, Puno, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Rafael Mine, Melgar Province, Puno, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:256205
Long-form Identifier:1:3:256205:6
GUID (UUID V4):365a57fe-5538-4b37-98d6-b1eaf4f065ba
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ross L. Sherlock Anthony E. Williams-Jones San Rafael, Peru: geology and structure of the worlds richest...2003  Springer-Verlag 2003 Abstract The San Rafael mine exploits an unusually high grade, lode-type...related to the leucomonzogranitic phase of the San Rafael pluton. Preliminary fluid inclusion microthermometry...zoning Æ Fluid mixing Æ Lode deposit Introduction San Rafael is a lode-type cassiterite–sulfide deposit, located...Andean tin belt, in the department of Puno, southeastern Peru (Fig. 1). It crops out at elevations between
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Constraints on Ore Formation at the San Rafael Tin-Copper Deposit, Southeast Peru THOMAS WAGNER,† Institute of...G75 0QF, Scotland, United Kingdom Abstract The San Rafael tin-copper deposit in the Eastern Cordillera...ubiquitous replacement of pyrrhotite by pyrite and marcasite. The δ18O values of the fluid decreased systematically...tin mineralization has been poorly documented. San Rafael, the world’s richest primary Sn-Cu deposit (Kontak...Andes of the Eastern Cordillera of southeastern Peru and is currently exploited by MINSUR S.A., is an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1741–1777 Genesis of the Giant, Bonanza San Rafael Lode Tin Deposit, Peru: Origin and Significance of Pervasive...Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6,Canada Abstract The San Rafael Sn-Cu deposit, located at lat 14°13'58" S, long...Cordillera de Carabaya, northern Puno Department, southeastern Peru, yielded 38,182 t of fine tin in...reserves of 14.460 Mt at 5.14 percent Sn, the main San Rafael Lode constitutes, both at present and historically...more than 80 percent of the upper 750 m of the San Rafael stock experienced quasipervasive hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof the Cordillera Oriental, Southeastern Peru DANIEL J. KONTAK, Departmentof Minesand Energy,P...esentin the Cordillera de Carabaya,southeastern Peru,segmentof the centralAndeanInnerArc domain.The deposits...regionasa whole. A comparison of the southeastern Peru ore lead datawith thoseavailablefor the metallo-...genically similarnorthwestern Bolivian Sn-W-Ag province reveals broadlysimilarresults for Tertiary$n polymetallic... Pb1SOTOPE COMPOSITION, CORDILLERA ORIENTAL, SOUTHEASTERN PERU 1585 (Audebaud andAmosse,1981; Clarket al., 1984)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization and alteration accompanying faulting 4. Mine adit in bleached-clay zone 5. Dolomite masses replacing... . . . 1096 17. Structural pattern, southern San Rafael Swell, Utah 1098 18. Hot-springs deposition along...section of uranium-bearing pipe, Woodrow Mine 1103 27. Orphan Mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona... 1101 28. Circular...Collapse feature yielding uranium, River View Uranium Mine, Cameron, Arizona 1105 31. Volcanic centers of northeastern...alteration, Temple Mountain, Utah 1086 2. Dolomite, San Rafael Swell 1086 3. Uranium-bearing collapse near a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
selenium. The selenium content of the pyrite, marcasite, and chalcociteis much greater than that reportedin...low selenium background and havepickedpyriteor marcasite or bothas themostsatisfactory indexsulfides.E...AND OCCURRENCE OF TI:IE SULFIDES Pyrite and marcasite are the mostabundantsulfidesassociated with the...Coalified log showingtypical sulfideconcentration. marcasite. Where sulfideshave been precipitatedwithin carbonaceous...showstrongcorrosionby the urani• minerals. Mi Vida mine, Monticello district, San Juan Count], Utah. Polished section
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 San Juan County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...District (San Francisco Mountains). Rocky District (Rocky Range). San Francisco (Frisco) District (San Francisco...River District (S. W. Green River). San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell). GARFIELD COUNTY Colorado River
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundant late hydrothermal jarosite in the Chinle, marcasite below the ore horizon, and the replacement of... deposits occur in a number of places on the San Rafael Swell, at Elk Ridge in eastern Utah, in New Mexico...Mountain lies along the southeastern side of the San Rafael Swell in Emery County, Utah, 44 miles southwest...1). A description of Temple Mountain and the San Rafael Swell in general is furnished in the report on...TEMPLE MOUNTAIN the rest of the Chinle. At the Delta mine, near miles east of Temple Mountain. Similar staining
Report (volume)
Utah 5 Lance Creek, Wyoming 5 Lone Tree deposit, San Rafael Swell, Utah 5 Maybell, Colorado 5 Palangana salt...associations with petroliferous materials 10 Anderson mine, Date Creek Basin, Arizona 10 Cameron, Arizona 10...Basin, Wyoming 11 Monument Valley, Arizona 11 Orphan mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona 12 Tallahassee Creek, Colorado...1960). Uraniferous asphaltite, common in the San Rafael Swell area of Utah, is either an indurated hydrocarbon...mines, oil from overlying rock units entered the mine workings. Whether the association of oil and ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MetallogenicEvolution of the Andes of Southeastern Peru ALANH. CLARK,EDWARDFARlIAR,DANIELJ. KONTAK,*ROBERT... GedlogoConsultor,Caminosdel Inca 698, Lima 33, Peru LYNNEJ. FRANCE,**SANDRA L. MCBRIDE,PRISCILLA L...post-Paleozoic metallogenicevolutionof southeastern Peru is clarifiedon the basisof the stratigraphic an...contiguous centralAndeantransects, southeastern Peru differsmarkedlyfrom other areasof the countryin...detailedinformationon the greatmajority SOUTHEASTERN Peru (Figs.1 and2) displaysa wider of the ore deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit is located in the San Rafael Massif, in southern Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is hosted by...recorded on December 4, 2002, of the San Rafael Massif, Mendoza Province, Argentina, focusing on remote-sensing...Geological setting The San Rafael Massif is located in southern Mendoza Province, Argentina (Fig. 1). A...Devonian to Lower Permian and ended with the San Rafael Orogenic Phase, which folded this sequence and...32 (2007) 275–290 277 Fig. 1. Geology of the San Rafael Massif, showing the location of the Infiernillo
Report (volume)
Geology, Altered Rocks And Ore Deposits of The San Rafael Swell Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, R....____________________ Altered Monitor Butte Member in the Delta mine area_ Altered Monitor Butte or Temple Mountain Members...district_____________ Descriptions of selected mines and mine areas___________________ Temple Mountain distri...Southeast flank_________________________________ Delta mine area___________________________________ Delta m...Southwest flank_______________________ 94 Little Susan mine and Ryan 101 prospect__________ Tomsich Butte area
Report (issue)
- - - - - - - - 16 9. Proportions of total world mine production of tin accounted for by countries having...Countries having greater than 2,000 metric tons of tin mine production in any one of the selected years 1940-8...- - - - - - - - Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tin, contained in ore and concentrate:...times larger, than was thought when the decision to mine was made. Experts having a sound knowledge of a...Schanz, 1980, p. 313). mining. Typically, placer mine recovery is above 90 percent and may approach 100
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
22.24. The samplesare predominantlypyrite and marcasite,but chalcopyrite, covellite,and bornitc are included...uranium depositsin the Monticello mining district, San Juan County, Utah. The Sa2/Sa4 ratios of these sampleswere...bromoformto removethe lighter gangue. For pyrite and marcasite,further purificationof the concentratewas effected...County, Colorado Star mine: mineralized sandstone --23.0 Gypsum Valley District, San Miguel County, pyrite...pyrite Colorado Pitchfork mine: sulfide from sheared zone --41.0 along axis of anticline, associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no. 120 HN 18a HN 18b Noetzlin Std., no. S.P. 73, San Carron commercial elemental sulphur (14) (3) (5)...22.09 22.16 j-2.7 With manxsite from Horsesho% Mine Assoeiatsd with HG%BU Concentrat%d from phonolitt*... N.Y. Welch Lake, Rockland Co., N.Y. Ellenville Mine, Ellenville, Pyrite Disseminated in olivinepyroxene...HN5 HN16 HN17 HN6 HN9 HN14 HN14r HG276 Ellenville Mine, Ellenville, N.Y. Sohoharie, N.Y. Cornwall, Penn...Achacolla 22.61 - 13.6 22.61 - 13.6 Aucanquilcha Mine, Aucanquilcha Volcano Volcan Chupiquilia 22.26
Report (issue)
low-temperature fumaroles. Association: Pyrite, marcasite, halotrichite, pickeringite, epsomite, alum, melanterite...At Libros, near Teruel, Teruel Province, Spain. From the Stamm Asser mine, near Schwartzenberg, and at...good crystals from the Dexter No. 7 mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael district, Emery Co., Utah; from the Mount...and Scotia mine, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia. At geothermal areas of Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China.
Report (volume)
_____________________------__------___---__---Calyx 8 mine.....____--________---_____-----__-. North Mesa 1...contours on the base of the Moss Back Member and mine workings on the Calyx Bench, southeast of Temple...map of the Calyx 8 mine and fence diagram showing geology of walls in part of the mine. 5. Geologic map...mine________ _ ___ 11. Ore bodies 4 and 5, Calyx 8 mine.____________ 12. Map showing inferred structure..._______________________ 13. Cross section of Vanadium King 5 mine, showing fracturecontrolled ore_-------_-_---__
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metate asbestos mine near Globe (Gila Co.), Ariz. Mr. Jack Neal, one of the owners of the mine, states that...that it occurs in large quantity throughout the mine."— letter dated July 1, 1955, from C. C. Corley, 2534...west, and includes many counties." CALIFORNIA — "In San Bernardino Co., Calif., East of Barstow, I collected...uranous silicate, has been found in the La Sal No. 2 mine, Mesa Co., Colo., and named coffinite in honor of...and dark brown hubnerite. "It comes from the Irma mine at Patterson, Lemhi Co., Idaho."—letter dated July
Report (volume)
sufficient abundance to constitute ores. In the San Rafael Swell area, Emery County, Utah, and particularly...asphaltite from the Temple Mountain district in the San Rafael Swell area, Utah, is described. These volumes...twelve-kilogram specimen of Dirty Devil No. 6 deposit [San Rafael Swell area, Emery County, Utah] had 0.105 percent...occurrence of uraniferous hydrocarbons at an abandoned mine on the Isle of Man and in the gold ores of the Witwatersrand...irregular masses in certain Triassic rocks of the San Rafael Swell, Utah. The asphalt cements the grains of
Book
produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...CALl[NTCS ... I MI ( Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...University of New York, Albany) Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Modified from Berstein, 1964, back...Ttcolote • S 0 R A Sor • Provinces I 5 The province of Sonora, located in the northwest corner of...4) is an extension of both the basin and range province, and the copper porphyry belt of the western United
Report (issue)
impregnation, replacement, or coating on fractures and mine walls. The commonly associated minerals are listed...other Survey geologists, AEC geologists, and by mine operators. Identification is based on the writers'...listed by mine name and the mining district, as shown on a map by Shoemaker and Luedke.2 Most mine names...with the mining districts an alphabetical list of mine and mining district names is given in table 2; also...from Temple Mountain on the east side of, the San Rafael swell in Utah. The most abundant uranium mineral
Journal (issue)
structures including the headframes of the San Joaquin, San Aquilino and San Teodoro shafts, the former mineralogy...level of the underground mine was refurbished to accommodate visitors, showing mine workings dating from...19th centuries and highlighting the old 80-meter San Andrés shaft with its preserved horse-powered winch...to forced labor in the underground mines. The San Rafael Mining Hospital. The hospital, constructed between...rates of illness and death among the miners. The San Rafael Hospital was the most advanced medical facility
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Propertiesof Sincosite,a new VanadiumMineral from Peru. Am. Jott. 9ci.,8,462, (1924).(Preliminarynote in...LrxocnnN and Mvnox Davv: Nickel Ores from the Key West Mine, Nevada. Econ. GeoI., 19, 3O9 (1924). Na.un: From...chalcopyrite and pentlandite at the Key West The Sudbury Mine, Clark Co., Nevada, as a replacement of the pentlandite...the sulfide analogue of chloanthite or of the marcasite group analogous to rammelsbergite. Until accurate...gypsum,hyalite and meta-torberniteat Temple Mt., San Rafael Swell, Utah. DrscussroN: While this material
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photos. September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado;...Colorado, 413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite...517 Connoisseur’s Choice, Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59; Calaverite...Exploration and Mining History of the de Linde Wavellite Mine, East Dug Hill Area, Near Avant, Garland County...Herrmann, J., Update on the Mineralogy of the San Rafael Mine, Nye County, Nevada, 512–24 Hidalgoite, Nevada
Report (volume)
Valley, White Canyon, the Circle Cliffs, the San Rafael Swell, and Sevenmile Canyon. Credit for the results...in Triassic rocks at Temple Mountain, in the San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah. During the period...deposit was worked in 1942 in the Monument No. 2 mine, but its importance was not understood until after...Canyon, the Capitol Reef National Monument, the San Rafael Swell, and the valley of Indian Creek. By 1951...prospect, now known as the Happy Jack mine, in White Canyon, San Juan County, Utah. With the discovery
 
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