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Alunite from
Rosario Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rosario Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:538641
Long-form Identifier:1:3:538641:3
GUID (UUID V4):ae8804a1-10a2-499f-a79c-e3c4562243e8
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
3.9km (2.5 miles) La Grande vein, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
7.6km (4.7 miles) Ujina Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
11.3km (7.0 miles) Quebrada Blanca Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
20.1km (12.5 miles) Copaquire Cu deposit, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
96.7km (60.1 miles) La Planada Mine, Yabricoya mining district, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
References
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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,...Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM, Pedro Lagos 1090, Iquique, Chile Abstract The Rosario and Ujina porphyry...with the Domeyko fault system in northern Chile. At Rosario, fault-hosted Cu-Ag–rich massive sulfide veins...associated with pyrophyllite-alunite-quartz altered rocks. The Rosario massive sulfide veins cut bio
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of the Rosario Cu-Mo Porphyry and Cu-Ag-Au Epithermal Veins, Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON...JOHN L. WALSHE, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102...Abstract The Rosario Cu-Mo-Ag deposit is located in the Collahuasi district of northern Chile. It comprises...on the core of a porphyry Cu-Mo orebody. Rosario has mining reserves of 1,094 million metric tons (Mt)...occurs in the district at the nearby Ujina and Quebrada Blanca porphyry deposits. The Rosario reserve contains
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dredmetersof the 12 majorporphyrycopperdeposits in Chile was substantiated furtherby Alpersand Brimhall ...supergene alunitefromthe Eseondida porphyry copper province. Indeed,perhaps onlytwoof thesemajordepositsdeposit(Fig...Salvador(Gustafsonand Hunt, 1975) in northern Chile Chile,duringthe late Oligocene to earlyMioceneinterval...0361-0128/96/1809/164-1655.00 164 CHILEAN Cu PROVINCE: OXIDATION & ENRICHMENT in controlling anyagedifferences...BAYAS 64 I •5-31 18-15 ANGELINA 3' ½'*• I ß CHILE ?5 ø ,,,,)ARGENTINA ) 43.31 23 SanMiguel de
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Mineralization, Huinquintipa and Mina Sur, Northern Chile MARK NELSON, KURT KYSER,† ALAN CLARK, Department...several Cenozoic porphyry Cu(-Mo) systems in northern Chile, is traditionally ascribed to the lateral migration...with, respectively, the 32.7 to 34.4 Ma Rosario (Collahuasi) and 31.1 to 34.6 Ma Chuquicamata porphyry...anthropogenic environments, including those of acid mine drainage (Johnson and Hallberg, 2003). Sillitoe...El Salvador porphyry copper deposits in northern Chile as relics of entombed microbes, supporting the inference
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................. 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...Geology of the Ujina and Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel...world’s largest mining operations and are the cornerstone of many of the worlds great mining houses. As such
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2 EXPRESS LETTER HYPOGENE ALUNITE FROM THE EL SALVADOR DISTRICT, CHILE, INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR A BLIND...hypogene alunite that cement late breccia bodies from the El Salvador porphyry copper district of Chile were...were recently dated. One alunite sample over the principal Turquoise Gulch porphyry deposit has a 40Ar/39Ar...intrusion. Two other samples associated with quartz-alunite replacement of rhyolite, ~750 m southwest of the...43 Ma. Porphyry copper ores in the El Salvador district formed at about the same time as porphyry intrusions
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Colorado Porphyry Copper Deposit, I Región, Northern Chile FARHAD BOUZARI† AND ALAN H. CLARK Department of...5-percent-Cu hypogene protore. Dating of supergene alunite-group mineral separates from various ore facies...least 20 m.y. Fifteen multistep age spectra for alunite, natroalunite, and jarosite yielded acceptable...middle Miocene, 14.59 ± 2.46 Ma; five samples of alunite-natroalunite mixtures, however, produced staircase...Incaic orogeny in northern Chile. An age of 35.26 ± 0.68 (2σ) Ma for alunite associated with hematite in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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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LLC, 309-302 River Garden, 15th Khoroo, Khan-Uul district, 17024, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2 U.S. 3 Erdenet...Colorado 80225, USA Mining Corporation, Friendship Square, Bayan-Undur soum, Orkhon province, 61027, Mongolia...characterized by residual quartz, andalusite, Na-Ca and K-alunite, diaspore, pyrophyllite, zunyite, topaz, dickite...part of the porphyry Cu-Mo deposit (removed by mining), comprised a bornite-chalcocite enriched zone...that envelops D veins. One 40Ar/39Ar date on K-alunite from the lithocap of 223.5 ± 1.9 Ma suggests that
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mineralisation in a magmatic-hydrothermal system—Morococha district, Peru Honza Catchpole & Kalin Kouzmanov & Aldo...Berlin Heidelberg 2015 Abstract The Morococha district in central Peru is characterised by economically...history of magmatichydrothermal activity in the district. In the late Miocene, three individual magmatic-hydrothermal...the oldest magmatichydrothermal system in the district and consists of a composite porphyry stock associated...magmatic-hydrothermal centre in the west of the district has a maximum duration of 0.3 Ma, ranging from
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...coarse sphalerite, along with sericite, and locally alunite but only local traces of pyrophyllite and dickite
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mineral zoning, from a core of enargite-pyrite ± alunite with traces of Au, through an intermediate zone...orebodies with a core of famatinite-pyrite and alunite, an intermediate zone with tetrahedrite-pyrite...orebodies (δ18O = 5.3–11.5‰, δD = –82 to –114‰) and on alunite from the Venencocha and Santa Rosa areas (δ18O...–69 to –97 per mil; values in equilibrium with alunite are –1.4 to –6.4 and –62 to –79 per mil. Sulfur...HCl and SO2 into meteoric water, which formed alunite. The hydrothermal system at Cerro de Pasco was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 114, no. 4, pp. 667–695 Alunite 40Ar/39Ar and Zircon U-Pb Constraints on the M...Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou 350013, China Mining Group Co., Ltd., Shanghang 364200, China Abstract...deposit, constitutes a major porphyry-epithermal ore district in South China. Current debate centers on whether...question of importance for exploration in the district. In this contribution, the magmatichydrothermal...Zijinshan and Luoboling is reconstructed based on new alunite 40Ar/39Ar ages from Zijinshan and zircon U-Pb ages
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Zijinshan High-Sulfidation Au-Cu Deposit, Fujian Province, Southeast China Jing Chen,1,2,† David R. Cooke...Tasmania, Australia 2 Transforming 3 Instituto the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), ARC Industrial Transformation...Universidad Austral de Chile, Edificio Pugín, Av. Eduardo Morales Miranda, Valdivia, Chile 4 Ore Deposits and...Zijinshan is a world-class Au-Cu district located in southwest Fujian Province, southeast China. It contains...deposit is located in the middle of the Zijinshan district, and ore zones are hosted in, below, and adjacent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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the Río Blanco-Los Bronces mega-porphyry Cu-Mo district establish a wide range of magmatism, hydrothermal...y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile e-mail: kdeckart@cec.uchile.cl...cl K. Deckart Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad...Universidad de Chile, Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile W. Silva Av. Colon 6275, Santiago, Chile e-mail: wsilva67@gmail...Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM, Av. Baquedano 902, Iquique, Chile e-mail: cpsprohnle@collahuasi
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London N6 6ND, England DAVID J. HALL, GoldQuest Mining Corp., 1810 –1111 W. Georgia Street, Vancouver...Panamá, Panama AND ALISTAIR H. WADDELL GoldQuest Mining Corp., Calle Guayubín No. 4, Los Rios, Santo Domingo...Abstract Field observations in the Pueblo Viejo district, Dominican Republic, show that an extensive advanced...vuggy quartz alteration, prograde overprinting of alunite by higher temperature pyrophyllite, and almost...1995), along with markedly elevated zinc contents. District-wide observations made during exploration activities
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Transformation Research Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain, University of Tasmania, Private Bag...low, silicic zone can define a resistivity high, alunite 1480 nm position that increases toward heat source)...from deposits across five countries (Canada, USA, Chile, Australia, and Philippines), three geologic eras...chemistry of two major Cenozoic porphyry systems in Chile are evaluated in this Special Issue. Baker et al...examined epidote mineral chemistry of the Collahuasi district and determined that anomalous values of trace
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Surface over the El Salvador Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chile YASUSHI WATANABE† Institute for Geo-Resources and...dominated by an advanced argillic assemblage of alunite-(± aluminum phosphate-sulfate minerals)diaspor...× 500 m outcrop, 80 m thick, of massive quartz-alunite replacement of rhyolite. Pure mineral separates...dickite, and supergene kaolinite), and 20 samples of alunite, some supergene in origin. Information on mineral...compositions calculated for the very late stage alunite range from 5 and –30 per mil to –1 and –40 per
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND SUPERGENE WEATHERING IN THE EL PEÑÓN DISTRICT, NORTHERN CHILE IAN WARREN,† Yamana Gold, 9670 Gateway...Peñón epithermal gold-silver deposit, Region II, Chile, comprises multiple epithermal veins, which contain...in the Paleocene metallogenic belt of northern Chile. Quartz-adularia-carbonate veins are hosted in Paleocene...composition intrusive rocks also occur in the district and locally preserve alteration associated with...deposit. Timing of hydrothermal activity in the district and age and duration of weathering are constrained
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vuggy quartz) and advanced argillic (dominated by alunite, pyrophyllite, and dickite) alteration [4,7]. In...recently documented by Serafimovski et al. [16,17]. Mining of copper and gold from pyrite–enargite veins in...Drilling exploration was undertaken by “Zletovo mine” and the National Geological Survey in Skopje in...1963–1974. The National Geological Survey and the mining company “RIK Sileks” continued exploration during...argillic alteration, characterized by kaolinite, alunite, zunyite, pyrophyllite, diaspore, and corundum;
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in magmatic arc settings. At the regional and district scales, the occurrence of many deposits in belts...central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003)...Escondida & Chimborazo Panguna Cerro Colorado Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri ...the geology of porphyry Cu systems at regional, district, and deposit scales. The resultant geologic model...BOLIVIA Collahuasi Chuquicamata El Abra 22° A AL C M E ALT O Regional- and District-Scale Characteristics
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University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China 4. Zijin Mining Group Co, Ltd, Shanghang 364200, China *Corresponding...metal associations. The age data indicate that the alunite-dickite alteration related to the HSE Au-Cu mineralization...orefield (ZOF) is located in Fujian Province and is the richest Au-Cu mining area in southeast China (Zhang...silicic-alteration (Q) zone, (2) an alunite-alteration (Alu-Q) zone, (3) an either alunite alteration zone that overprints...gold and minor pyrite. The Alu-Q zone contains alunite, quartz, pyrite, and minor dickite and sericite
 
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