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Pyrite from
San José Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphalerite87 photos of Pyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Valentinite74 photos of Pyrite associated with Valentinite at this locality.
Stannite56 photos of Pyrite associated with Stannite at this locality.
Cassiterite44 photos of Pyrite associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Quartz44 photos of Pyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Andorite43 photos of Pyrite associated with Andorite at this locality.
Miargyrite42 photos of Pyrite associated with Miargyrite at this locality.
Franckeite40 photos of Pyrite associated with Franckeite at this locality.
Jamesonite38 photos of Pyrite associated with Jamesonite at this locality.
Zinkenite35 photos of Pyrite associated with Zinkenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San José Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:42855
Long-form Identifier:1:3:42855:2
GUID (UUID V4):2f284a38-c9e0-4525-a2a9-91f93f76b0a4
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Socavón Mine (La Salvadora mine), Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
1.0km (0.6 miles) Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
1.1km (0.7 miles) Cerro Tetilla, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
3.4km (2.1 miles) Iroco mine (Kori Chaka), Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
11.8km (7.3 miles) Vinto prospect, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
28.4km (17.6 miles) La Reina mine (La Reyna mine), Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
32.9km (20.5 miles) Japo Mine (Negro Pabellón Mine), Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
35.9km (22.3 miles) Juliana Mine (Fenix Mine), Condeauque mining district (Conde Auque), Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
38.6km (24.0 miles) Kori Kollu mine (Inti Raymi mine; Kori Kollo mine), Cerro Chuquina, La Joya mining district, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
39.8km (24.7 miles) Santa Fé Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California, the star of...topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant Harris...Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant Harris...Pala district, San Diego County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande...district, San Diego County, Dave offers (besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ages of Tin-Polymetallic Mineralization in the Oruro Mining District, Central Bolivian Tin Belt Asahiko...vein-type tin-polymetallic ore deposits of the Oruro mining district in the central part of the Bolivian...the Oruro mining district took place during the early to middle Miocene: 15.8±0.8 Ma at San José, 20...alunite, jarosite, sericite, sulfur isotope, Oruro, Bolivia mineralization epochs of Bolivian epigenetic-type...tungsten-tin deposits in the northernmost tin belt. In the Oruro mining district, just south of the Arica Elbow Line
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: Llallagua, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...perhaps the finest known, 2 cm, from Llallagua, Bolivia. Mark Chance Bandy collection; current owner unknown...practical experience at the Gottesehre (“God’s Honor”) mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near...E-Mail: stuwil@aol.com Rhodochrosite, Uchucchaqua mine, Lima Dept. Peru 2 inches. Wilensky photo. Clara...SMALE Famous Mineral Localities: Llallagua, Bolivia Jaroslav Hyrsl Ke kurtum 383 142 00 Prague, Czech
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction The Deseado Massif, located in the province of Santa Cruz in southern Argentinian Patagonia...producer, with four mines (Cerro Vanguardia, Martha, San José and Manantial Espejo) in operation, as well as...commonly less than 1% in volume, mainly consist of pyrite, native gold, acanthite, native silver, sulfosalts... 40 km to the northwest of the Cerro Vanguardia mine (Fig. 1a). Pingüino is characterized by the presence...complex paragenesis, composed mainly of idiomorphic pyrite crystals, zoned arsenopyrite crystals up to 1 cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain mineral...the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information and photographs...intermediate temperatures and is often associated with pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, stibnite, boulangerite...from such disparate localities as the Black Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified...King. It has also been reported from the Albion mine in the Little Cottonwood district, Salt Lake County
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
Book (edition)
HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier...colours of bornite (brown), chalcocite (blue), and pyrite (creme). 2 Reflectance Reflectance relates to...internal reflections. Isotropic minerals, such as pyrite or galena, do not show bireflectance. Left: Radial...anisotropy. In rare cases, isotropic minerals, such as pyrite or galena, may show an anomalous anisotropy due...transmitted light). Left: The polishing hardness of pyrite (creme) is much higher than that of graphite (brownish
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As extended periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om...have grown at about the same time, as happens with pyrite and quartz, or they may have grown one after the...collectively as zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA » 18 x 24 x 8 om 14 MINERALS:...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26x 16 cm 22...* 20 x 18 x 14. cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1x 1 om Acicular
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points) in the material collected from medieval mine dumps of the Staročeské pásmo Lode (Old Bohemian...the southern part of the ore district and one ‘pyrite-rich’ in the northern part (Malec and Pauliš, 1997)...The Staročeské pásmo Lode belongs to the northern pyrite-rich lodes and it is the biggest lode of the Kutná...pyrargyrite, freibergite, native silver, galena, pyrite, sphalerite, berthierite and Pb–Sb (–Ag) sulfosalts...quartz–kutnohorite gangue. The pyrite-rich assemblage (northern part) comprises pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND PETROLOGY A proposed new type of arsenian pyrite: Composition, nanostructure and geological significance—Artur...2008 Metalliferous paragenesis of the San José mine, Oruro, Bolivia— F. Keutsch and M.K. de Brodtkorb Genetic...An example from the Fox kimberlite, Ekati Diamond Mine, NWT, Canada—L.A. Porritt, R.A.F. Cas, and B.B.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Province of Canada (Tait and Bainbridge 2013); the apatite-magnetite...magmatic hydrothermal deposits of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru (Petrov and Hyršl 2013); the syenite pegmatites...(Belakovskiy 2013); and Mt. Xuebaoding, Sichuan Province, China (Rakovan 2013b). Many of these were mentioned...of Scandinavian apatite occurrences is the ore province of northern Norrbotten, Sweden. This is home to
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splendid specimens of crystallized sul:fides like pyrite, sphalerite, galena, etc. The mineralogy of Peruvian...the information about the turquoise locality in Bolivia, Bob Jenkins about turquoise localities in Chile...deposits strongly prevail in southem Peru and in Bolivia, which helps to explain why the vast majority of...that the famous Cerro Rico de Potosí deposit in Bolivia, one of the world 's richest silver deposits of...river, La Unión province, and the second near Chivay in Colea valley, Caylloma province. The third important
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aleaziones.-(Journ.'Phann Chi. (6.a série) 5-11). Bolivia EN LA ESPOSICION DE MINERIA 1 METALURJIA DE SANTIAGO...moitió añiglaise et moiti! bolivienne, de San José. Oruro, en somine, a fait, défection complIte. , A...gisements étaient-reliés par quelue voic ferrée, á, Oruro par exemple, i1s pourraient évelopper leur exploitation...Huanchaca avaient exposé (les cuivres gris avee pyrite de fer, vraiment remarquables. On sent qu'il y...pyrites, La blende qui aceompagne le cochiso et la pyrite, est plus communément amorphe. La Compagnie de
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BARITE 13 cm, from Jebel Ouichane, Sagangane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection;...row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe...from Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo...photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection; James
Book
MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm...have grown at about the same time, as happens with pyrite and quartz, or they may have grown one after the...collectively as zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS:...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
date the oxidation of former concentrations of pyrite and any associated sulfide minerals. These K-bearing...epithermal deposits because of the general paucity of pyrite for acid generation. For this reason, the age of...2009). In mineral deposits containing abundant pyrite, supergene sulfide oxidation in the weathering...localities in the prolific epithermal Au-Ag vein province of the Deseado massif, which abuts the Atlantic...latitudes 46° and 49° S in northeastern Santa Cruz province, southern Patagonia, Argentina (Schalamuk et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epithermal Ag–Au Huevos Verdes vein system and San José district, Deseado massif, Patagonia, Argentina...May 2011 # Springer-Verlag 2011 Abstract The San José district is located in the northwest part of the...minerals are argentite and electrum, together with pyrite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, minor bornite...structural model for the time of mineralization of the San José district, consisting of a conjugate shear pair...the San José district. Keywords Epithermal vein system . 40Ar/39Ar radiometric dating . San José district
Book (edition)
Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford – Paris San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo Elsevier...Calaverite II/D.16-40 378 Villamaninite II/D.17-20 380 Pyrite II/D.17-30 382 Cattierite II/D.17-40 384 VIII ...observe bireflectance. Isotropic minerals, such as pyrite or galena, do not show bireflectance. Anisotropic...to judge anisotropy. Isotropic minerals, such as pyrite or galena, generally do not show anisotropy (although...Descriptions Irregular patches of gold (yellow) in pyrite (light cream); West Driefontein, Johannesburg,
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in the pools that formed. The Star of the Congo mine near Lubumbashi, in particular, (famous among mineralogists...rosette of deep yellow shabaite from the Kamoto East mine. This beautiful matrix specimen was pictured in...favorite locality, the mineralogically complex Kipushi mine. He wrote “La collection des . . . chantillons minéralogiques...Katanga minerals. Joseph also wrote “The Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire” (with coauthors G. Gauthier and V...The Mineralogical Record in 1991, and “The Kipushi mine, Shaba, Zaire,” also for The Mineralogical Record
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Oligocene Andahuaylas-Yauri Belt, Cuzco Region, Peru JOSÉ PERELLÓ,† Antofagasta Minerals S.A. Ahumada 11,... Departamento de Geología, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cuzco. Avenida de la Cultura, Cuzco...S.A. Avenida Paseo de la República 3245, Piso 3, San Isidro, Lima 27, Perú NICOLÁS FUSTER, AND RICARDO...rapidly emerging as an important porphyry copper province. Field work by the authors confirms that mineralization...include the red beds of the Eocene to early Oligocene San Jerónimo Group and the postmineralization late Oligocene
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de México. These works were actually authored by José Guadalupe Aguilera, but because of Dr. L. Salazar...produced specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...Mexicali Show & Nensengdo Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Mod ors ified from Berstein, 1964...University of New York, Albany) Provinces / 5 The province of Sonora, located in the northwest corner of
Report (issue)
Mountains-Green River, Utah ...coccccecccccesece 334 N. San Rafael—Cedar Mountain, Utah .ccccccccccecccscscvce...wie)orelerese)sieherereitis eiekaisteierese/ctere 460 San fonds Lake we dpnvelascts cua.orate erecta earenete...between galena sphalerite, Darwin Lead-Silver-Zinc mine, Inyo County, California, Econ. Geol., v. 66, p..., Bingham 1971, mining U. xiii S. study mine, of the '"'B" limestone Bingham mining The age... 1971, p. 215-225 The Bolivian tin-silver province: Econ. Geol., v. 66, ABSTRACT These bibliographies
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deposit of An Phu, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 by D. Blauwet...crystal cluster on matrix, 6 cm tall, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Sandor Fuss collection (2004)...Vug,” discovered on the 12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The...Mineralogical Record, volume 37, May–June, 2006 Cresson mine manager Dick Roelofs showing the Cresson Vug to...school; he did his Master’s work at the Rueppele iron mine in Stanton, Missouri. He spent the years 1931–1932
Report (issue)
........................................... S16 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ S20 Mine Closure.................................................... S12 Pie chart showing estimated world mine production of tin in 2015, by country and amount...tantalum, tin, tungsten, and (or) gold AMD acid mine drainage ATPC Association of Tin Producing Countries...meter ppm part per million QSP quartz-sericite-pyrite SEC U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 
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