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Sphalerite from
Huanuni mine, Huanuni, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite5 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Ludlamite3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Ludlamite at this locality.
Vivianite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Vivianite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Huanuni mine, Huanuni, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:42737
Long-form Identifier:1:3:42737:7
GUID (UUID V4):d03f8e51-4f34-45db-9953-f56efcaaddc6
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
16.1km (10.0 miles) Santa Fé Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
16.6km (10.3 miles) Ichocollo Mine (Monserrat Mine), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
16.9km (10.5 miles) Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
17.9km (11.1 miles) Santa Cruz Mine, Poopó, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
18.8km (11.7 miles) San Francisco Mine, Poopó, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
20.0km (12.4 miles) Excelsior mine, Potosí, Bolivia
20.3km (12.6 miles) Antequera Mine (Tihua Mines), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
20.4km (12.7 miles) Trinacria Mine, Callapampa, Poopó, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
20.6km (12.8 miles) Japo Mine (Negro Pabellón Mine), Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
21.7km (13.5 miles) Bolivar Mine (Antequera Mine), Monserrat-Antequera mining district, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Critical Elements in the Sn–W–Pb–Ag–Zn Huanuni Deposit, Bolivia Andreu Cacho 1 , Joan-Carles Melgarejo...maria.pura.alfonso@upc.edu Colegio de Geólogos de Bolivia, Edificio Señor de la Exaltación Nro. 4683, Av...1 y 2, Zona de Obrajes, Casilla 8941, La Paz, Bolivia; info@osvaldoarce.com Eloro Resources Ltd. Av....  Abstract: The polymetallic Huanuni deposit, a world-class tin deposit, is part of...complex mineralogy and mineral chemistry of the Huanuni deposit with the twofold aim of identifying the
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...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...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Report (issue)
pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Rocks of Africa...last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Now a few more...pseudocrystals. Suolunite, 6.8 cm, from the Lac D’Amiante mine, Thetford Mines, Quebec. David K. Joyce Minerals
Journal (issue)
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...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
Report (issue)
thumbnail-size azurite specimen from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece, which I acquired at the...from the very small 2017 find in the Christiana mine which yielded the specimens seen in Munich later...harm either: Azurite, 4.2 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...======== Azurite, 1.8 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...that this is Lundazi, a town in Eastern Zambia Province and very near the Zambia/Malawi border. The spessartine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inclusion reconnaissance study of the Huanuni tin deposit (Bolivia), using LA-ICP-MS micro-analysis Received:...selected quartz-cassiterite veins of the Huanuni tin deposit, Bolivia. Fluid inclusion assemblages were found...Camargo Gallegos Universidad TeÂcnica de Oruro, Oruro, Bolivia Present address: B. MuÈller Division of...study of the ¯uid inclusion chemistry of the Huanuni tin mine. In addition to conventional homogenisation...The Bolivian tin province The Bolivian tin belt is a well-de®ned metallogenetic province extending from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL BOLIVIA. F.S. PART II TURNEAURE PART II PAGE Descriptionof...formation, in which it is closelyassociatedwith late sphalerite. Certain textures shownby pyrite and marcasiteseemto...whichthe two minerals MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL BOLIVIA. II 577 were in direct contact. Age relationshipsare...rather than replacement. It was characterizedby sphalerite,siderite, pyrite and rare chalcopyrite. These...appear as tiny veinlets and irregular coatings. Sphalerite occursgenerally in botryoidal and globular masses
Journal (issue)
Trebisky and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California..........................Henderson The Mineralogy of the Department of Oruro, Bolivia..............................................c o rc l W \ Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina...made his mark in a tourmaline find at the B.B. #7 mine in north Norway, Maine, and came to fame as the...specimens and gem materials in­ clude the Harvard mine for purple apatite, Plumbago mountain for rose quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cycle .............. The Tertiary petrographic province ............................. The Tertiary me...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...provenearly Tertiary2 ageare knownin this part of Bolivia. The batholith of apliticgranitewhichI foundin...canism in themiddle andsouthern partsof thetin province pro• Theageof theyoungmagmatie rocksof Peru,especially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generally attributable to included chalcopyrite and sphalerite; Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks...8 inches across associated with molybdenite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, and a suite of alteration...states. Examples include the Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous...famous Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada; with freibergite and andorite at the Bear Basin mines...geocronite and sphalerite at the Young American mine, Stevens County, Washington; the Old Dowdy mine, Gunnison
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the polymetallic hydrothermal ore deposits in Bolivia A. Sugaki ~, S. Kojima ~ and N. Shimada 2 i Institute...partly sphalerite, cassiterite, and barite from the 28 tin-polymetallic ore deposits in Bolivia. Generally...mineralization, such as Morococala and Avicaya in the Oruro district, frequently indicating a temperature higher...170°-300 °C. At the Avicaya-Bolivar mining area in the Oruro district as well as at the Tasna and ChocayaAnimas...were confirmed. The province of the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes in Bolivia is a geologically important
Report (issue)
896(1) c = 7.627(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Huanuni mine, Bolivia. 3.670 (100), 2.888 (67), 6.146 (43), 3...Total 100.24 100.00 17.89 0.00 − (1) Huanuni mine, Bolivia; by ICP, H2 O by gravimetry, H2 O+ by Karl...Occurrence: Bolivia). A late stage hydrothermal mineral in a base-metal-tin deposit (Huanuni mine, Association:...Association: Bolivia). Variscite, sphalerite, vivianite, wavellite, cassiterite, pyrite, quartz (Huanuni mine...mine, Distribution: In the Huanuni mine, Oruro, Bolivia. From the Bali Lo copper prospect, 11 km west-southwest
Book (volume)
Acanthite San Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico,...47 (Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon...Malachite) Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Tin and TungstenDepositsof the EasternAndes,Bolivia WM. C. KELLY AND F. S. TUR•E^URE Abstract Nu... were applied to ores of the Eastern Andes of Bolivia in order to evaluatetemperatureas one factor in...and was essentiallyuseless as a geobarometer. Sphalerite displays complex polytypism in the Bolivian ores...geologic interest. The present iron content of sphalerite reflects initial equilibration with pyrrhotite...individual tin and tungsten depositsthroughout Bolivia. The depositscould differ in age, but there is
Book (volume)
Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,..., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina,...Div., Myanmar, 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite)...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)...Tourmaline) Paprok Mine, Nuristan Prov., Afghanistan, 33 Bismuthinite Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
V4+O(SO4)(H2O)3 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The North Mesa 5 mine, SW ¼ of section 35, and the adjacent eastern edge...Llanos mine, 2 km northwest of Santa Marta village (Lat. 38° 37'N, Long. 6° 36'E), Badajoz province, Spain...at the La Muda mine, in Azuaga (Lat. 38° 20'20"N, Long. 5° 47'30"E), Badajoz province, Spain, at the...the Venus mine, Sierra Gorda, Argentina, and at the Nepomucene mine, Annaberg, Austria. Occurrence: In the...Cattiite Mg3(PO4)2•22H2O T RICLINIC Locality: Zhelezny mine, Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Occurrence:
Catalog/List
August 2020 4 5 Fluorite on Quartz Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China 6.35 cm tall x 6...with Pyrite Inclusions on Manganocalcite Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China 16 cm tall x 18 cm...cm tall x 5.7 cm wide 14 15 Azurite Milpillas Mine, Mun de Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora, Mexico 14 cm...tall x 7 cm wide 22 23 The Tourmaline Queen Mine draws its fame from the “Blue Cap” pocket discovered...This “Green Cap” tourmaline comes from the same mine. Identical in every way except for the color of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yukon. In the early 1980s, when acid drainage from mine wastes was gaining prominence because of its environmental...minerals for the galliumgermanium ores of the Apex mine, Utah. Economic Geology, 81, 946–950. Roberts, A...new mineral from the Huanuni tin mine, Dalence Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia. Mineralogical Record...drainage from the oxidation of iron sulfides and sphalerite in mine wastes. In Lead & Zinc ’05 (T. Fujisawa,...(eds.) (1994) Environmental Geochemistry of Sulfide Mine-Wastes. Mineralogical Association of Canada Short
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sharpestcurvature. These depositsincludeOruro, Huanuni, Llallagua, Colavi and Potosi. The size and abundance...•lntimony I?ei•zs.--Most of the antimonydepositsof Bolivia belongto this group. They havebeenformedat depthsranging...stibnitecrystals. A vein at the Tarumita mine near Caracollo north of Oruro contains smallpocketsof cinnabarin...Bombaminescheelite occurs F•. 2. Map of the Huanuni district. witha largeproportion of fluorite,calcite...of 200 m. The veinsare classedas epithermal. Huanuni.--Inthisdistrict(Fig. 2), Devonianshales andshaly
Report (issue)
5.856(16) c = 17.338(5). X-ray Powder Pattern: Bolivia. 3.44 (100), 2.91 (100), 2.86 (100), 2.82 (100)...100.19 100.53 (1) Chocaya, Bolivia. (2) Poopó, Bolivia. (3) San Jose, Bolivia; electron microprobe analysis;...family. Occurrence: In hydrothermal Ag-Sn deposits (Bolivia); in a limestone contact metamorphic deposit (Kalkar...marcasite, arsenopyrite, galena, pyrite, sphalerite, siderite (Bolivia); cassiterite, galena, stannite, teallite...(Russia). Distribution: In Bolivia, from Chocaya [TL], Poopó, Oruro, Llallagua, Huanuni, Colquechaca, and Cerro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE TIN DEPOSITS OF LLALLAGUA, BOLIVIA. F. S. TURNEAURE. PART II. CONTENTS---•ar! II. The bonanza...consistsof pyrite and marcasitewith accessoryquartz, sphalerite,and siderite. Horizon o[ Maximum ?alue.--Although...generalization. I70 THE TIN DEPOSITS OF LL.4LL.4GU.4, BOLIVIA. 171 Ori#in.--In •926, Koeberlin .,6advanced...age; it precedesthe iron sulphides,arsenopyrite,sphalerite,and stannite. Some tin is doubtlessreleasedin... (7) Greene30reportsa small amountof tin in the mine water of Llallagua,but this is morelikely derivedfrom
Report (issue)
090(2) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Montserrat, Bolivia. 2.84 (100), 3.41 (60), 1.419 (50), 3.27 (40),...16.44 Total [99.72] 100.00 (1) Santa Rosa mine, Bolivia; recalculated after deduction of Zn 1.08% as...Cassiterite, stannite, franckeite, cylindrite, galena, sphalerite, wurtzite, pyrite. Distribution: Found in many...Salvador mines, Montserrat, and the Porvenir mine, Huanuni, Oruro; Mount Cerillos, near Carguaicollo, in the...Potosı́; the Lipey Huaico mine, Ocuri; the San Alfredo mine, Colquiri; and the Aliada mine, Colquechaca. In the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elevationof 3,815 meters,about lOO km. southeastof Oruro, in the heart of the Bolivian Eastern Andes. Its...Andes of Southern Bolivia and the NW.-SE. axis of the Andes of northern Bolivia, that is, Uncia lies...'withinthis area--Oruro, Negro Pabellon,Morococala,Poopo,Avicaya,Antequera,Huanuni,Challapacheta, the...therangeandx,7oom. long at right anglesthereto. The mine workingsindicateit extendsverticalin depth. It is...support of this idea the author states that the mine workings at Potosi have clearly demonstrated such
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)
Tin-Silver No. 2 Province F. S. TURNEAURE Abstract The tin-silver provinceof Bolivia includesthe Cordillera...mineralization betweenthe tin-silverprovinceof Bolivia, the copperprovinceof Chile and the belt of polymetallicores...The tin-silver provinceof the Eastern Andes of Bolivia has only a generalconnotation,as the belt Geology...determinations of interbeddedvol- THE BOLIVIAN TIN-SILVER PROVINCE • .•, 660 (j•.L__ok_ .e• ,. 'Tiffcoco.•:'L•...Turneaure, 1960). In this district andesitcflows are mine in Argentina,a distanceof 900 km; it reaches overlain
 
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