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Cassiterite from
Carmen Mine, Pucarani, Los Andes Province, La Paz, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carmen Mine, Pucarani, Los Andes Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:426882
Long-form Identifier:1:3:426882:6
GUID (UUID V4):741e7139-42c5-43ff-80bb-bb88dc490101
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
5.5km (3.4 miles) Milluni mine, Los Andes Province, La Paz, Bolivia
5.6km (3.5 miles) Fabulosa Mine, Larecaja Province, La Paz, Bolivia
9.2km (5.7 miles) Mt Chacaltaya, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz, Bolivia
11.8km (7.4 miles) Kellhuani mine, La Paz, Bolivia
12.2km (7.6 miles) Kala Uya mine, Mt Chacaltaya, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz, Bolivia
14.8km (9.2 miles) Victoria mine, Mt Chacaltaya, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz, Bolivia
38.7km (24.0 miles) Andina Mine, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz, Bolivia
44.6km (27.7 miles) Liliana Mine, Yanacachi District, Sud Yungas Province, La Paz, Bolivia
46.7km (29.0 miles) Chojlla Mine, Yanacachi District, Sud Yungas Province, La Paz, Bolivia
52.9km (32.9 miles) Enramada Mine, Yanacachi District, Sud Yungas Province, La Paz, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...(presumably without the shrine) to a European in La Paz, Bolivui. Rolf Wein bought the specimen on July...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the polymetallic hydrothermal ore deposits in Bolivia A. Sugaki ~, S. Kojima ~ and N. Shimada 2 i Institute...sphalerite, cassiterite, and barite from the 28 tin-polymetallic ore deposits in Bolivia. Generally,...comparatively high for ore deposits formed by cassiterite mineralization, such as Morococala and Avicaya...were confirmed. The province of the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes in Bolivia is a geologically important...fluid inclusions in ores from some tin deposits in Bolivia have been given by Little (1960), Kelly and Turneaure
Journal (issue)
o n .) ^ |P h o to by Ha^ld and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angl Note: Please call ahead for our travel schedule...Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal Ontario Museum...A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord November-December...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metallogenetic Epochs and Provinces of Bolivia The Tin-Province (Part I) The Metallogenetic Provinces...the Altiplano (Part II) F. A~LFELD Cochabamba, Bolivia Partf. An attempt is made to solve the relationships...formation of ore deposits using the Bolivian tin-province as an example. In the eastern Cordillera we are...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with...down-faulted and consequently preserved. The polymetallic province of the Altiplano contains subvolcanic ore deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ore deposition in the easternrangeof the Bolivian Andes. Amongthe importantpointsin this paperare the correlationof...deposits of thisrangeintoa singlemetallogenic province,in spite of the occurrenceof distinct cassiteriteand...veintypes,in whichthereis a transitionfrom the cassiterite to the complexsulphideveins. This differedfrom...range and some newly developedoccurrenceseast of La Paz, that is, depositsin the granitic areas and in...mineralization in the eastern cordillera of Bolivia is established beyondquestion. As examplesof
Report (issue)
S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geologico de Bolivia in cooperation with the Trade Development Program...............xi Site Descriptions Department of La Paz..................................... 1 Department...the U.S. Geological Survey-Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia as part of the Mineral Resource Evaluation of the...of the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia located in their main office in La Paz. All of the data presented...States, and the Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia. This report is an edited version of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Folding of the Andes and associatedmagmatic cycle .............. The Tertiary petrographic province ..........excellentwork of Myron Davy (I92O), the Bolivian Tin Province has beenthe object of much detailedresearch. Its...a short summary of the present knowledgeof the province. Many questionshave not yet been solved;geologicaland... 48 Contains bibliog- THE FOLDING OF THE ANDES BOLIVIAN AND THE TIN BELT. ASSOCIATED 49 MAGMATIC...provenearly Tertiary2 ageare knownin this part of Bolivia. The batholith of apliticgranitewhichI foundin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...hübnerite, chalcocite, bismuth, bismuthinite, cassiterite, and molybdenite (Uytenbogaardt 1968). It is...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock...examples at the present time are from the Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, where it occurs...with enargite and fluorite come from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (D. Bunk
Report (volume)
Geologico de Bolivia, Regional Santa Cruz, Casilla 3015, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia ISBN O 11 884415...Brasiliano cycles 89 Andean-trending belts in eastern Bolivia 89 Evolution of the enlarged Andean chain 90 Seven:...Precambrian shield and other major geomorphic units of Bolivia 1 Access for field operations 6 Index map of Project...geological units of c. 1300 Ma or older in eastern Bolivia and adjacent Brazil 62 37 Rb-Sr plot for the Casa...the Sunsas Orogeny in Bolivia . 74 46 Elements of the Sunsas Cycle in Bolivia and adjacent Brazil 79
Report (volume)
Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA With a section on...Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia I by U.S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia; with a section...mineral resources-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental. 3. Geology-Altiplano. 4. Geology-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental...Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1975 [TN39.A4] 557.3s--dc20...cooperation between the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia and the U.S. Geological Survey. The geologic research
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silicicto basic,but in the oresas well. For example,at La Joya (Fig. •), enargite-tennantite veinsoccurwith...•lntimony I?ei•zs.--Most of the antimonydepositsof Bolivia belongto this group. They havebeenformedat depthsranging...quartz with stibnitecrystals. A vein at the Tarumita mine near Caracollo north of Oruro contains smallpocketsof...of scheelite with ankeriteand dolomite,and in the La Bombaminescheelite occurs F•. 2. Map of the Huanuni...extensive,the primary ore where found consistsof cassiterite with pyrrhotite,pyrite,blacksphalerite,chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Ag-Sn Formation located within Argentina and Bolivia have been investigated mineralogically and geologically...Argentina, respectively. The Geological Survey of Bolivia contributed through help with the logistics. The...genetically related to the Tertiary volcanism of the Andes. Depending on the dominant metals and the alteration...the wide-spread occurrence of tin minerals (cassiterite, stannite, kësterite, ferrokësterite, hocartite-pirquitasite)...related to the presence of indium-rich sphalerite, cassiterite, petrukite and sakuraiite. The polymetallic deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TIN-BEARING CARACOLES, WALDEMAR VEINS OF BOLIVIA. LINDGREN. INTRODUCTION. THE Caracolesdistrict...situatedin the central part of Bolivia, about5ø milessoutheast of La Paz, in the part of the Cordillera...probablydoesnot connectwith the granite area north of La Paz River, which is known to occur in the Illimani...the surrounding slates. On the north is the Araca Mine, long known for the beautiful cassiteritecrystalsthere...depositsof Quimsa Cruz have been described. The Concordia Mine, at Vela Cruz, has been investigatedby Rumbold;x
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Episodes in the Northern TinBelt, Cordillera Real, Bolivia By SANDaAL. McBRIDE, Kingston, RONALDC. R. I:{OBERTSON...bolivien septentrional (ca. 15~ ~ S) de la CordiU~re orientale des Andes centrales (Cordill~re est) eonfirme...essentiellement lin6aire d6finissant la bordure interne de l'arc magmatique des Andes eentrales. Bien qu'aucune...indication concluante nesitne la raise en place d'intrusions granitiques durant la p6riode interm6diaire, au...Triassique a affect6 simultan6ment ca. 200 km de la eeinture. Le domaine Oligoe6ne-Mioe~ne, pour sa part
Book
~of_t_h~~-S~o~c~_· ~ . Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes Edited by L. Font bote, G. C. Amstutz, M. Cardozo...Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Stratabound ore deposits in the Andes I edited by L. Fontbote ... [et a!.]. p. em. - (Special...references. ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 1. Ore deposits - Andes. 2. Mineralogy, Determinative. 3. Geology, Stratigraphic...present volume Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes has its roots in an international seminar on stratabound...research done on stratabound ore deposits in the Andes required a synthesis. Researchers in industry and
Book
Berkshire RG 11 2PY, England Yan Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...£species Minerales de Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez's La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of...1) produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
million metric tons Sn; grades typically >2% Sn) cassiterite-bearing hydrothermal vein system hosted by a...mineralization consists of NWtrending, quartz-cassiterite-sulfide veins and fault-controlled breccia bodies...generations, and is locally intergrown with cassiterite, chlorite, quartz, and minor pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite...meteoric waters as the main process that caused cassiterite precipitation. Introduction Tourmaline is the...exceptionally large and rich, granite-related cassiterite-bearing vein system extensively studied by previous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ascentering aboutthelatter,better-known type. The cassiterite, quartz,pyriteassociation wasclassed as an outlying...abundant tourmaline in certain of the northern cassiterite veins and on the strengthof this occurrenceof...Bolivian tin ores during somemonths spent in the Andes several years ago. Specimens examinedat that time...and its southeastward extension from north, of La Paz to the southeastern part of the departmentof Potosi...core and the elevationof the Cordillera Real of Bolivia mustbe of approximatelythe sameage. This may seemstartling
Book
Berkshire RG11 2PY, England Van Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...Especies Minerales de Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of...pa Biren vem, nM cad tomas ies ery £5 ao hebe, La iOd aay Am gle Pha yy i;sian, WRT a ss] ae " re...1) produced specimens from such places as the LaMine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein
Journal (issue)
Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal Ontario Museum...A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White Editing, advertising... Columns W h a t's n e w in m i n e r a l s D e la w a r e S h o w 1 9 9 8 ...........................ificad a m in e, C e rro R ico d e P o to si, Bolivia. R esearch C h a rita b le T ru s t sp e c im e...303-232-6451 Colorado Amazonite LJP—Colorado Larry & Carmen Piekenbrock 1180 York Avenue Canon City, CO 81212-8612
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos s/n, 37006 Salamanca, Spain; tllg@usal.es...by hydrothermal fluids enriched in volatiles. Cassiterite I, wolframite I and rutile I crystallized during...deposition, composed initially by subordinate cassiterite II and wolframite II. Later during this main...deposition prevented the crystallization of cassiterite, favoring instead the incorporation of this element...Batholith. Keywords: Jálama Batholith, quartz veins, cassiterite, wolframite, rutile, ixiolite Received: 7 February
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGIST The sulfides and selenides of the Musonoï mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo—Cassian...Ngunala Intrusion of the Giles Complex, Musgrave Province, South Australia— A. Schwarz and S. Constable...and A.A. Sidorov The Kamchatka nickel-bearing province—Yu. P. Trukhin, V.A. Stepanov and M.D. Sidorov...tungsten-bearing skarns, Los Santos, central Iberian zone, Spain—Fernando Tornos, Carmen Galindo, José Luis...copper–zinc sulphide deposit, Western Australia: an LA-ICP-MS study—Maïté Le Gleuher, Ravi R. Anand, Richard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chimie des Solides, Institut des Mat6riaux, 2, rue de la Houssini~re, F-44072 Nantes Cedex 03, France Received:...discovered. The deep potential of the South Iberian Province is therefore promising and open to sophisticated...of Aguas Tefiidas, Migollas, Concepci6n, Gaviao, Los Frailes, Neves-Corvo, Valverde and Lagoa Salgada...Sotiel, Tharsis, Concepci6n, San Platon, San Telmo, La Joya, Sierrecilla, Buitr6n, etc.; Fig. 1) and representative...'~-'T'-I-% j / /.r " "'r, N. . . . SSO " " " El Carmen """~:~ ~ . . . C. . . . v6 ~ _ -...-~- ,
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GeochronologicConstraintson the MetallogenicEvolution of the Andes of Southeastern Peru ALANH. CLARK,EDWARDFARlIAR...Johnson. 1520 METALLOGENIC EVOLUTION, SE PERUVIAN ANDES 1521 sparsein comparisonto the broadly contem...explanatorytext by Bellidoandde Montreuil(1972), la republiea... E1Peregrino." and the perceptivesyntheses...perceptivesyntheses of Ponzoni(1980) and ei6n: Volved un instante la eabeza haeia este lado de Nieanor Parra, Poemasy...regional similar subdivision of the Cenozoic Peruvian Andes and local settingsof mineralizationand an extensive
 
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