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Biotite from
Quebrada Blanca Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quebrada Blanca Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:534031
Long-form Identifier:1:3:534031:6
GUID (UUID V4):fc490e49-ac2f-45ce-b474-ca0c7d360665
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
11.3km (7.0 miles) Rosario Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
13.7km (8.5 miles) Copaquire Cu deposit, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
17.8km (11.1 miles) Ujina Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
99.7km (62.0 miles) Laguna Cañapa, Nor Lípez Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the western margin of Gondwana: Collahuasi area, Northern Chile Francisco Munizaga a , Victor Maksaev...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile Research School of Earth Sciences...Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi, SCM, Pedro Lagos 1090, Iquique, Chile d Research School of Earth...northern Chile mostly consists of late Paleozoic to Early Triassic felsic igneous rocks (Collahuasi Group)...supercontinent. This igneous suite crops out in the Collahuasi area and forms the backbone of most of the high
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Related Copper-Silver Veins in the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON J. MASTERMAN,†,* DAVID R...JOHN L. WALSHE, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102,...Compañia Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM, Pedro Lagos 1090, Iquique, Chile Abstract The Rosario and...porphyry copper mineralization at the nearby Quebrada Blanca deposit, constitute the third-largest concentration...associated with the Domeyko fault system in northern Chile. At Rosario, fault-hosted Cu-Ag–rich massive sulfide
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Porphyry and Cu-Ag-Au Epithermal Veins, Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON J. MASTERMAN,†,* DAVID R...JOHN L. WALSHE, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102...Cu-Mo-Ag deposit is located in the Collahuasi district of northern Chile. It comprises high-grade Cu-Ag-(Au)...the core of a porphyry Cu-Mo orebody. Rosario has mining reserves of 1,094 million metric tons (Mt) at 1...percent copper occurs in the district at the nearby Ujina and Quebrada Blanca porphyry deposits. The Rosario
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Chemistry as an Exploration Tool in the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile Michael J. Baker,1,2,† Jamie J. Wilkinson...Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), an Australian Research Council...Australia 6005, Australia Abstract The Collahuasi district of northern Chile hosts several late Eocene-early...Cu-Mo deposits, including Rosario, Ujina, and Quebrada Blanca deposits, and associated high-sulfidation epithermal...rocks of the upper Paleozoic to Lower Triassic Collahuasi Group, which experienced lower greenschist facies
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Facies Metamorphic Terrain of the Collahuasi District, Northern Chile—Implications of Petrographic and...London SW1Y 5AN, United Kingdom Abstract The Collahuasi district is a porphyry Cu-Mo subprovince located on...plateau of northern Chile. Late Eocene-early Oligocene mineralization in the district involved hydrothermal...alteration of the upper Paleozoic to Lower Triassic Collahuasi Group granodiorites, diorites, andesites, dacites...metamorphic mineral assemblages. Our results from Collahuasi indicate that petrographic criteria can distinguish
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(1) Advanced Mining Technology Center, Universidad de Chile. Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile. (2) Departamento...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. (3) College of Earth, Ocean and...at depths greater than 1,000 m (e.g., Superior district; Manske and Paul, 2002), as well as new drilling...concealed areas (Sillitoe and Thompson, 2006). Mining and exploration of deposits becomes increasingly...central Andes, are enough to sustain underground mining. The exploration of deep concealed targets is very
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu–Mo mineralization in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile: new constraints from the Toki cluster...the Chuquicamata–Radomiro Tomic mines in northern Chile. These prospects occur in an area of 5×6 km and...porphyries that intruded andesites and dacites of the Collahuasi Group and intrusions of the Fortuna–Los Picos...potassic type with K-feldspar and hydrothermal biotite. Sericitic alteration is relatively restricted...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile e-mail: fbarrapantoja@ing.uchile.cl F.
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of Northern Chile Preface FRANCISCO CAMUS † Codelco-Chile, Huérfanos 1270, Santiago, Chile AND JOHN H...University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Introduction Chile is known worldwide as the site of one of the largest...production of more than 50 Mt of fine copper. Currently, Chile annually produces about 4.6 Mt of fine copper that...potential has triggered numerous international mining companies to concentrate their exploration efforts...efforts in the Central Andes with emphasis in Chile. During the past 25 years, exploration expenditures
Book (volume)
University with a B.Sc. Honours. He completed his PhD in Mining Geology in 1979 at Imperial College, London. His...contributions to economic geology. Stints with Palabora Mining Company, JCI and Anglovaal added to Ross’ southern...After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology
Book
................. 61 , The Mankayan Mineral District, .Luzon Philippines. Artemio F Disini, Bruce M...Radomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile. Patricio Cuadra and Francisco Cam us.............Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit,Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel Durdn andAquiles Gonzales...world’s largest mining operations and are the cornerstone of many of the worlds great mining houses. As such
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ore-bearing continental igneous setting: Collahuasi Formation, northern Chile R.G.A. Baker a,b,c, M. Rehkämper...porphyry Cu deposits in the Collahuasi Formation of the Central Andes in northern Chile. The igneous lithologies...chalcophile affinity in the continental crust of the Collahuasi Formation, but behaves as a lithophile element...by partitioning of Tl+ into K+-bearing phases. Collahuasi samples with propylitic alteration features,...36 rock samples from the Collahuasi Formation in the Andes of northern Chile. This formation hosts worldclass
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Council (ARC) Research Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain, University of Tasmania, Private Bag...Hefei, Anhui 230009, China 8Resolution Copper Mining, P.O. Box 1944, Superior, Arizona 85173, USA Abstract...Resolution porphyry Cu-Mo deposit in the Superior district of Arizona is hosted in Proterozoic and Paleozoic...phyllic and advanced argillic alteration. The district was disrupted by Tertiary Basin and Range extension...world’s major porphyry copper provinces (e.g., Chile, Arizona, Papua New Guinea), porphyry exploration
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(CEGA), FCFM, D Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile Department of Earth Sciences...Barra Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Chile fbarrapantoja@ing.uchile.cl Phone: 56-2-29784532...IOCG clan in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, comprises the PT iron oxide-Cu-Au sensu stricto...deposits constitute the second source of copper in Chile, after porphyry Cu-Mo systems, whereas SC IOAs...that the Cretaceous Manto-type Cu belt of central Chile extends further north than previously thought. Additionally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Chuquicamata Mine: A Progress Report GUILLERMO OSSANDÓN C., CODELCO-Chile, Gerencia Exploraciones...Santiago, Chile ROBERTO FRÉRAUT C., CODELCO-Chile, Superintendencia Geología, Chuquicamata, Chile LEWIS... DARRYL D. LINDSAY, SRK Consultores, Santiago, Chile AND MARCOS ZENTILLI Department of Earth Sciences...Canada B3H 3J5 Abstract Chuquicamata, in northern Chile, is the world’s greatest copper orebody. It was...replacement of plagioclase, and more widespread biotite replacement of hornblende, with igneous texture
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that the majority of large mineral deposits and mining districts are situated in the outcrops of these...radiometric ages of mineral deposits. Sixteen mining districts in Chile, and 24 in Argentina, were attributed...to the seismically active fracture zones. Major mining districts and individual large mineral deposits...zones roughly parallel to the axis of the Peru-Chile trench (Carachas-Portillo, Choquelimpie, Iquique...relatively restricted domains of the Earth's crust. The mining districts with dated mineral deposits are arranged
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of Mineralization in the Indio Muerto District, El Salvador, Chile LEWIS B. GUSTAFSON,† 5320 Cross Creek...89511 WALTER ORQUERA, CODELCO-Chile, Division Salvador, El Salvador, Chile MICHAEL MCWILLIAMS, Department...AND MARCELLO MENDEZ CODELCO-Chile, Division Salvador, El Salvador, Chile Abstract The porphyries that...that formed copper deposits in the Indio Muerto district include both 44 Ma rhyolitic subvolcanic intrusions...intruding host andesite at the northeast end of the district. Very weak Cu but much stronger Mo mineralization
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LETTER HYPOGENE ALUNITE FROM THE EL SALVADOR DISTRICT, CHILE, INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR A BLIND PORPHYRY COPPER...bodies from the El Salvador porphyry copper district of Chile were recently dated. One alunite sample over...43 Ma. Porphyry copper ores in the El Salvador district formed at about the same time as porphyry intrusions...associated with ~80% of the known copper ore of the district; they record waning stages of magmatism at 42...copper deposits in the remote El Salvador district of Chile began with Old Camp in 1951 and the much larger
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologic Evolution of the Escondida Area, Northern Chile: A Model for Spatial and Temporal Localization of...and Chimborazo (Cordillera de Domeyko, northern Chile). The purpose of this study was to examine the regional...magmatic setting of this preeminent porphyry Cu district for evidence of features or processes that might...throughout much of the porphyry belt of northern Chile. Geochemically, they are I-type in character, but... Introduction NORTHERN CHILE is the world’s premier porphyry copper district, hosting several major deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the El Abra Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile: Implications for Long-Lived Multiple-Event Magmatic-Hydrothermal...Universidad de Concepción, Concepción CP 4030000, Chile 2 Instituto GEA, Casilla 160-C, Universidad de...de Concepción, Concepción CP 4030000, Chile 3 Department 4 Superintendencia of Earth Sciences, University...Contractual Minera El Abra, Calama CP 1390000, Chile Abstract Zircon LA-ICP-MS and CA-TIMS and molybdenite...geochronology for the El Abra porphyry copper deposit (Chile) document a ~8.6 Ma protracted magmatic-hydrothermal
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Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile d Departament de Geoquı́mica, Petrologia i Prospecció...Petrology Laboratory of the University of Barcelona. Biotite and feldspar crystals were hand-picked from crushed...southern part of the Central Depression or Pampa del Tamarugal, between the Coastal Range and the Precordillera...0.033 0.98 0.46 93 7 to 17 of 18 o0.0005 Biotite Plateau (low-prob.) 0.181 7 0.056 2.9 0.003...00004 Biotite Plateau 0.37 94.5 7 to 17 of 19 o0.001 Biotite All steps weighted mean Biotite Plateau
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Cerro Colorado Hypogene Protore, I Región, Northern Chile FARHAD BOUZARI,†,* AND ALAN H. CLARK Department...Cerro Colorado porphyry Cu (-Mo) deposit, I Región, Chile, exhibits features not commonly documented in such...extremely fine grained but texture-preserving biotite (≤35 modal %)-albite (≤40%)-magnetite (≥3%) alteration...laterally at shallow depths. Extensive zones of biotite-rich alteration, generally barren and with a hornfelsic...the hypogene protore of the El Salvador deposit, Chile, comprehensively documented by Gustafson and Hunt
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http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tigr20 El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and...Mineria , Avenida Santa Maria, Santiago, 0104, Chile b U.S. Geological Survey , 345 Middlefield Road...Mineria , Avenida Santa Maria, Santiago, 0104, Chile d Australian National University , Canberra, Australia...Orlando Rivera & C. Mark Fanning (1997) El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and...& Son, Inc. All rights reserved. El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and
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magmatic-hydrothermal systems of the Bolivian tin province. The average boron content in melt inclusions...Departamento de GeologõÂ a, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 13518, Santiago, Chile H.-J. Schneider Ferdinand-Lehner-Strasse...copper porphyry deposits of northern and central Chile, and the vein and porphyry deposits of the Andean...developed in the time interval of 43±31 Ma (Collahuasi/Quebrada Blanca, Chuquicamata, La Escondida, El Salvador)...the world's single largest tin mine (Amlot 1998), is the San Rafael mine in SE Peru which works a vein
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displacements in the Precordillera of northern Chile By KLAUS-J. REUTTER, EKKEHARDSCHEUBER,Berlin and...Valley and the Western Cordillera of northern Chile, is made up of several elongate basement ridges...displacements in the Precordillera of northern Chile 137 )r!ada Blanca $uatacondo~ -- 21 ~ >" (~ -- I " r'...fault in the open pit of the Chuquiquamata copper mine is referred to as the, West Fissure~. In this paper...Precordilleran Fault System (PFS). In the Andes of northern Chile, the subductiongenerated magmatism of the Andean
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Attributes at Chuquicamata Cu–Mo Porphyry Deposit, Chile Héctor VÉLIZ, Eduardo CAMPOS, Andrew MENZIES and...Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Antofagasta, Chile Abstract The distribution of mineral zones, hydrothermal...characteristically observed in the south wall of the mine. All of the above events combine to yield the final...index suggests that in the potassic alteration, biotite and green-gray sericite facies contribute to strengthen...Geológicas, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, 1270709, Chile. Email: hectorveliz@me.com © 2017 The Society of
 
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