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Chalcopyrite from
San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrargyriteⓘ4 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Pyrargyrite at this locality.
Sphaleriteⓘ3 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ3 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:381586
Long-form Identifier:1:3:381586:1
GUID (UUID V4):fbe2cf16-37bb-4c1f-a0df-79b3c0e2fe39
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
3.9km (2.4 miles) ⓘMadona Mine, Madona area, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
14.5km (9.0 miles) ⓘPalomo mines, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
23.6km (14.6 miles) ⓘTeresita Mine, Huachocolpa District, Huancavelica Province, Huancavelica, Peru
27.2km (16.9 miles) ⓘEsperanza 2001 Mine, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru
46.0km (28.6 miles) ⓘJulcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru
55.2km (34.3 miles) ⓘTingo Cu deposit, Huaytará Province, Huancavelica, Peru
83.8km (52.1 miles) ⓘAlmacen Cu-Mo deposit, Chincha Province, Ica, Peru
85.0km (52.8 miles) ⓘEl Puquio Cu deposit, Andaymarca, Ica Province, Ica, Peru
89.0km (55.3 miles) ⓘMina Eliana, Quebrada Rio Seco, Humay District, Pisco Province, Ica, Peru
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silver-Rich Polymetallic Veins of the Castrovirreyna District, Central Peru: Fault Growth and Mineralization...undulatory silver veins of the Castrovirreyna district, central Peru, formed in a dilatant, anastamosing...those at Castrovirreyna. For example, there are anastamosing faults and veins in the Creede district, Colorado...Colorada district, Mexico, is highly curved (Albinson, 1988); and veins of the Fresnillo district, Mexico...between faults and are important for exploration and mining of vein-type ore deposits. Bends and other irregularities
Report (issue)
OF THE CASTRDVIRHSYNA LEAD-ZINC-SILVER DEPOSITS, PERU By Richard Wheatley Lewis, Jr. U. S. Geologic-1...nomenclature. ABSTRACT The Castrovirroyna mining district lies in the Andean Cordillera of South Central...Supervene silver ores vere first mined. Currently the district produces about 20,000 tons of laad*sinc ore and...and 50OO tons of silver ore annually* The district: Is underlain by Tertiary andesitlc rocks interbedded...striking 8. 55° 2. They are, front east to vest: San Gaanro, Caudslosa, and la Virreyna. A less liaportant
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Peru. When fresh...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter...Colorado mining districts. Sparse though good crystals were found in the early years of mining in the Jo...Jo Reynolds mine and in smaller though well-formed crystals in the siliceous vein exploited in the Nabob...Nabob mine at Lawson, Clear Creek County. Bastin (1923) reported crystals of pyrargyrite, polybasite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs at the Palomo mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru. It is a low-temperature...van der Waals forces, Palomo mine, Peru. Introduction THE mines of Peru have yielded mineral riches for..., 1997). During its years as an active mine, the Palomo mine was not known as a specimen producer; however...cessation of mining operations in 2000, a few independent miners began working the mine for mineral specimens...some of the ïŹnest crystals of realgar known from Peru, as well as unusual pseudomorphs of orpiment after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coating miargyrite from the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru. It is triclinic and the third...R1(F) = 0.057, wR2(F ) = 0.128], aramayoite [Armonia mine, El Quevar, Argentinia: a = 7.813(2), b = 8.268(2)...specimens from the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Castrovirreyna District, Peru, was investigated...Recalculation of his analyses assuming admixed chalcopyrite and pyrite leads to a composition close to that...rare associate of miargyrite from the abandoned Ag mine of Saint-Marie-aux-Mines, France (Saint Jaques vein
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
Book
2 . P')76m Purser, W I' C 198T- , ‱ Metal-mining in Peru, put and present 1by1 W. F . C. Purser. New...NIOUro.. Peru. . l. Tltle- TN~9.P8T. . -· ' ‱ 18,50 '18-182'81 Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and...social, and political development. Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and Present -a :'O > m C) m ::D...of the mines of Peru. Part~ of the book sketches the background of Peru and its mining history. The mines...divided into five chapters for the five mining areas of Peru. Part III is concerned with the economic
Journal (issue)
except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping to get the permit system properly...still very much a 'frontier place'. One supposed mine was started by a character called Otto van Stryk...Stryk who thought he had found a huge iron mine. Alas, he never got any useable ore out of it. Rick went... So now it is recognised as a potential uranium mine! Another anecdote involved a light plane brought...amethyst, fluorapatite and tourmalines. Rossinguranium mine, a uraniferous granite, was also mentioned. Rick
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Locality: The San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Castrovirreyna District, Peru. Occurrence: Found...(trace) andorite, diaphorite, robinsonite, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pyrite. General appearance:...RICLINIC Locality: The dumps of the GĂŒldener Falk mine near Schneeberg–NeustĂ€dtel, Schneeberg area, Saxony...copper deposit, 30 km southwest of Yunta, Olary district, South Australia, Australia (Lat. 32° 41' S, Long...Crespigny (b. 1950), Executive Chairman of Normandy Mining Limited, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide
Journal (issue)
.89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .95 by J. HyrĆĄl Pseudomorphs from Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The
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...Coll. Z. Rosales. Photo J Hyrsl. 6 Introduction Peru is a country rich in minerals, with numerous very...Crowley et al. (1997) and most recently in the book "Peru, Paradise of Minerals" (Hyrsl et al., 2011 ). N...deals with faceted gemstones, which are very rare in Peru. And finally, the reader can find the bibliography
Report (issue)
Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș A translation of MinerĂ­a y Metalurgia en el Antiguo PerĂș ArqueolĂłgicas...[MinerĂ­a y metalurgia en el antiguo PerĂș. English] Mining and metallurgy in ancient PerĂș / by Georg Petersen...Mines and mineral resources—Peru—History. 2. Metallurgy—Peru—History. 3. Peru— Antiquities. I. Title. TN52... Contents Introduction to the English translation of Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș Prologue . . .
Report (issue)
= 90.22(2)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: San Genaro mine, Peru; similar to aramayoite. 2.798 (100), 3.425...99.5 (3) 36.72 41.45 21.83 100.00 (1) San Genaro mine, Peru; by electron microprobe, average of 22 analyses;...corresponding to Ag2.97(Sb2.91As0.09)Σ=3.00S6.03. (2) Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan; electron microprobe analysis,...hydrothermal hypogene origin coating miargyrite (Peru); in an epithermal goldsilver quartz vein cutting...diaphorite, robinsonite, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite (Peru); pyrargyrite-proustite, miargyrite
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street ‱ Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Assistant Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3749/canmin.50.1.101 BAUMSTARKITE FROM THE KORYU MINE, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN Arashi KITAKAZE Yamaguchi University...as aggregates of euhedral crystals in the Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan. The optical properties, chemical...(2002) based on samples from the San Genaro mine (Huancavelica department, Peru). A crystal structure study...unknown Ag-Sb-As sulfosalt mineral from the Koryu mine in Hokkaido Japan was described as “arsenian aramayoite”...system Ag 2SSb2S3-As2S3 are discussed. The Koryu mine in Hokkaido, Japan, is an epithermal gold-silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization is present in the Julcani mining district, Peru, as fracture fillings in Tertiary volcanics...are used to determinemetal ratios throughoutthe district. The changesin metal ratios are large and systematic...mineralizing solutions. In the southeast.ernpart of the district, Herminia-Lucrecia, ratios change systematicallyaway...changesin three other mineralized areas of the district indicate general domal zoning. In general,Pb/Cu...as are determinedthroughoutthe Julcanimining district, Peru, usingmetalcontentdata available' from seen'by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rises to 6,272 meters (20,577 feet), Huascaran in Peru is 6,768 meters (22,205 feet), Tocorpuri on the...from placer deposits and mining and smelting oxidized copper ores in central Peru about 1500 B.C. By the...(tucuna), which implies a rudimentary knowledge of mining and mineralogy. The mineral wealth was an integral...Uchucchacua, Peru; emeralds from Muzo, Colombia; pink fluorite and huge pyrites from Huanzala, Peru; 25-cm...pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica, Peru. The combination of awe-inspiring topography, mining, and mineral specimens
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................& A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ...........387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x 3.4 x 1.9cm orders@crystalclassics
Catalog/List
m1nor wolframite xls. 714) STELLERITE - Sarbai mine, Rudny, Kazakhstan; Showy lustrous brown radiating...CHRYSOCOLLA pseudomorph after SELENITE - Magma-Open Pit Mine, San Manuel, Arizona; Showy bright sky-blue chrysocolla...FLUORITE with DOLOMITE and GALENA ‱ Huanzala Mine, Peru; Neat, attractive specimens! Two available; iterri...3 cm ‱ $80 726) FLUORITE with DOLOMITE ‱ Moscona Mine, Villabona, Asturias, Spain; Rich golden amber yellow...x 6 x 3 cm - $25 732) PYROMORPHITE - Rosenberg Mine, Braubach/Rhein, Germany; Nice light brown hexagonal
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ...........1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...CONVENTION 8c EXPO CENTER APRIL24-26 INESITE HALE CREEK MINE MAD RIVER ROCK, COASTAL RANGE, TRINITY CO., CALIFORNIA
Book
MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
toxic elements upon oxidation, especially in acid mine eïŹ„uents. In this work the oxidative dissolution...ca. 2 with 0.025 M Fe3+ simulating abiotic acid mine drainage environments. The open circuit potential...important in environmental issues, as well as in copper mining and ore processing, e.g. by flotation (McCarron...reactivity of enargite in natural environments or mine eïŹ„uents is considered. Early, comprehensive work...this study were natural enargite from the San Genaro mine, Peru, as used already in an earlier work (Fantauzzi
Journal (issue)
calcite, plu s fin e exam ples o f apophyllite, chalcopyrite, galena, hedenbergite, m anganaxinite, sphalerite...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...Valley. It serves as the center of a very active mining area; a narrow-gauge railway for hauling ore passes...(The name simply means “most distant or remote mining tow n”) HISTORY The area around Dal’negorsk was...the area and purchased the rights to the Verchniy mine. Operations to extract copper, lead and zinc began
Journal (issue)
History Mining Background India is a vast and densely populated country with a history of mining going...(the Golconda district in the princely state of Hyderabad, now Andhra Pradesh; a district located between...between the Mahanadi and Godavari valleys; and a district around Panna in the old region of Bundelkand, now...in the early 1800’s at Padyur in the Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu. Exceptionally deep blue aquamarine... and there is likewise little thought given by mining personnel to saving specimens that are primarily
 
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