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Bismuthinite from
Carguaicollo Mine, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carguaicollo Mine, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:545579
Long-form Identifier:1:3:545579:9
GUID (UUID V4):51c1cee2-3a99-4b89-8370-2cc594b7eeb8
Localities for Bismuthinite in this Region
Silver veins, Carguaicollo Mine, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuthinite
73.9km (45.9 miles) Cerro Tarqui, Yocalla Municipality, Tomás Frías Province, Potosí, Bolivia
96.7km (60.1 miles) Cerro de Potosí (Cerro Rico), Potosí (Potosí Municipality), Tomás Frías Province, Potosí, Bolivia
96.7km (60.1 miles) Pulacayo Mine (Huanchaca mine), Huanchaca, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, 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...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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PbSnS 2, was found at a burning coal mine dump of the KateÏrina mine at Radvanice near Trutnov, Czech Republic...Se containing galena, antimonian bismuth and bismuthinite. Three types of teallite occurrences are distinguished...black thin laminae from an unknown locality in Bolivia by Prior DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2002/0177-0163...San Alfredo mine at Colquiri, Monserrat mine near Poopó, Santa Rosa mine and El Salvador mine at Antequera...Moritz 1933). At the deposits of Carguaicollo (department of Potosí) teallite represents the principal
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)
Universitesi] at 20:13 05 January 2015 Pseudomorphs from Bolivia JAROSLAV HYRSL Heverova 222 CZ-28000 Kolin Czech...Republic ALFRED PETROV casilla1728 Cochabamba Bolivia Figure 1. Map showing deposits discussed in the...the more unusual members of the mineral kingdom. Bolivia is a country well known to collectors as the only...tungsten mines in the altiplano and eastern Andes of Bolivia. Pseudomorphs of native copper, cuprite, chalcocite...Cochabamba, Bolivia. Both authors are also part-time dealers specializing in minerals from Bolivia. 410 ROCKS
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...gold- and silverbearing tellurides. The selenium province at La Rioja is the largest one on earth. The prominent...Extensive studies of deposits of the Ag-Sn- Province at Bolivia allowed new insights in their mineralogy...investigations are presented for Oruro, Porco, Potosí, Andacaba, Chocaya and Tasna. A widespread anomaly
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)
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL BOLIVIA. F.S. PART II TURNEAURE PART II PAGE Descriptionof...whichthe two minerals MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL BOLIVIA. II 577 were in direct contact. Age relationshipsare...mt--matildite ap--apatite •sp--arsenopyrite bm--bismuthinite cp--chalcopyrite fl--fluorite fo--lead sulfosalts...indicatedby repeatedbanding in the ore. Wolframiteand bismuthinite, whichare foundin the deeperveins, shouldbe...form, accordingto MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL BOLIVIA. II 581 Chace,were madeup of the mineralsof the
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...individual tin and tungsten depositsthroughout Bolivia. The depositscould differ in age, but there is...chalcopyrite...... Association of pyrrhotite and bismuthinite .... Melting of native bismuth ...............of mineral se- deposits of the EasternAndesof Bolivia. The pri- quence,the laboratorydataprovideinformationas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
depositsstudiedwere: Sanford Lake, New York; Gap Mine, Lancaster, Pa.; Iron Mountain, Wyo.; Iron Mountain...compilingthe actual sequenceof thisgroupwere: Etta Mine and IngersollMine, South Dakota;Auburn,Paris,andTopsham...Early Tantalite Scheelite Molybdenite Late Bismuthinite Bismuth Gold, stibnite,and jamesoniteare reportedin...Middletown,Connecticut. Hand specimens from the Etta Mine indicatethat it is an early mineral, probablythe...In a veinofpegmatitic character neartheRichards Mine,Dover, N.J., molybdenite was observed, youngerthan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS VEINS OF F. M. ORURO 1948 No. 6 BOLIVIA. CHACE. PART II. CONTENTS--PART II. PAGE ...quartz latite porphyry can be found in the San Jos• mine even far from veins without disseminated pyrite...and matrix alike. . TIN-SILVER VEINS OF ORURO,BOLIVIA. 437 The pyroxeneand amphibolehave nearly disappeared...rocksadjacentto the Oruro veins,particularlyin the Itos mine. Ahlfeld described some of the rock on the lower...Federieo, Los yacimientos minerales de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia, January 1941. 88 Campbell, Donald F.
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ikuno, and Tada mines in westernJapan and the Ashio mine in easternJapan belongto the class. The fissurescontainingvein...granitic magma. The vein materials at the Akenobe mine are as follows: Ore minerals: cassiterite, wolframite...arsenopyrite,molybdenite,pyrite, native bismuth, bismuthinite,chalcopyrite,stannite, sphalerite,galena, primary...the Ikuno, Tada, and Ash.io mines. At the Ikuno mine, the distribution of the vein materials shows a...At the Akenobe mine similar zoning is recognized. It is inferred that at the Akenobe mine the mineralizing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
70, 1975, pp. 913-927 PorphyryTin Depositsin Bolivia R. H. SILLITOE,C. HALLS, AND J. N. GRANT Abstract...central and southern parts of the Bolivian tin province has been derived largely from lode systemsassociatedwith...dikes that intrude the Paleozoic-to- The tin province Tertiarysuccession are considered late Tertiary...antimonyhavealsobeenworked. In the northernsectorof the province (Fig. 1), in the CordillerasReal and QuimsaCruz...K-Ar methodconFIG. 1. Map showingthe Bolivian tin province (after metricage determinations Ahlfeld and Schneider-Scherbina
Journal (issue)
Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese
Book
.................. .42 3.1.6 Pirquitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina ..................................... 58 3.2.7 Maranda J, Murchison belt, Northern Province, South Africa ........... 59 VIII Table of...4.12 Carguaicollu, Oruro, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............................ 89 3.4.13 Bolivar...Occidental, Bolivia ............ 89 3.4.14 Huari-Huari, Potosi, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............Occidental, Bolivia ......... 91 3.4.16 San Vicente, Uyuni, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ...........
Journal (issue)
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...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had... famous mineral localities: Cerro ;8.ico de £ofosi Bolivia ^ --------------------- Wendell E. Wilson 4631...85750 Alfredo Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia Cerro Rico ( “Rich M ou n tain ”) de Potosi is...(1519-1521) and Pizarro conquered Peru and what is now Bolivia (1531-1535). Tons of silver began to pour from
Book
geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an answer in the terms of the second question...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border... 16 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 9 8 X Colavi, Bolivia RAMDOHR Wolframite (hübnerite), in typical lath-shaped
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
Book
Approximate production percentages are Malaysia 39%, Bolivia 15%, Thailand 11%, Indonesia 12%, Australia 6%...of the continent, it is possible to outline a province extending from Alaska to Mexico. (Sainsbury et...would hesitate to nominate the entire zone as a province. Similarly global scale linear tin belts can be...(Schuiling, 1967a, 1967b). Even within a well accepted province the perspective of different scales is important...Asian tin zone is normally regarded as a single province extending some 3000 km. from Thailand to Indonesia
Report (issue)
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... in Canada and the United States, by state or province. The state in which each Mexican deposit occurs...Finally, to that fine group of scientists and men, the mine geologists of the Americas, who have taken time
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Birnessite Bischofite Bismite Bismuth native Bismuthinite Bixbyite Blödite Boehmite Boracite Bornite Boulangerite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mine”. This includes the imperative “if you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is first and foremost recognized...According to the Raw Materials Group (Sweden), the world mine production in 2005 stood at 19.3 m t metal content
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Birnessite Bischofite Bismite Bismuth native Bismuthinite Bixbyite Blödite Boehmite Boracite Bornite Boulangerite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mine”. This includes the imperative “if you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is first and foremost recognized...According to the Raw Materials Group (Sweden), the world mine production in 2005 stood at 19.3 m t metal content
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
Report (volume)
deposits of the Berenguela district, northwestern Bolivia By Alan R. Wallace, Richard F. Hardyman, Richard...La Espanola prospect, northwestern Altiplano, Bolivia By Albert Hofstra, Richard F. Hardyman, Luis Barrera...of gold-associated skarn from Nambija, Zamora Province, Ecuador: A reconnaissance study By Jane M. Hammarstrom...Polymetallic veins, replacements ......... Bingham Canyon Bolivia Skam-related copper .............................Mesozoic structure of the eastern Basin and Range Province, Utah, from COCORP seismic relection data: Geology
 
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