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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quebrada Blanca Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:617019
Long-form Identifier:1:3:617019:6
GUID (UUID V4):dbdd3e54-92ed-4f96-9d85-6b140dfdbce2
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
17.8km (11.1 miles) Ujina Mine, Collahuasi mining district, Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
55.9km (34.7 miles) Lolón Main Mine, Cerro Challacollo, Pozo Almonte, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
80.3km (49.9 miles) Pabellón geothermal field, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Signature of Porphyry Copper Systems in Northern Chile and Its Geologic Implications GERARDO BEHN,† FRANCISCO...FRANCISCO CAMUS, PEDRO CARRASCO CODELCO-Chile, Huerfanos 1270, Santiago, Chile AND HUNTER WARE Ware Exploration...acquired for base metals exploration in northern Chile between lat 19° 45' S and 27° 15' S revealed a pattern...porphyry copper deposits grouped in clusters within a district is explained as being related to a common parental...explorations for ferrous and nonferrous metals in northern Chile have been making increasing use of regional aeromagnetic
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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
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...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile e-mail: fbarrapantoja@ing.uchile.cl F....Center of Excellence (CEGA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile H. Alcota : S. Rivera Exploraciones Mineras
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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)
uncommon type of mineralization in northeastern Chile Darı́o Chinchilla, Lorena Ortega, Rubén Piña,...uncommon type of mineralization in northeastern Chile, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...uncommon type of mineralization in northeastern Chile T Darío Chinchilla a, b*, Lorena Ortega a, Rubén...(CEGA), Universidad de NU b Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. Department of Geosciences, Virginia...Resources Plc. Compañía minera Paguanta, Santiago de Chile, Chile. D Abstract TE The Patricia ore deposit
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...800-m elevation in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, some 240 km northeast of Antofagasta (22º 17.5'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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)
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...the hypogene protore of the El Salvador deposit, Chile, comprehensively documented by Gustafson and Hunt...CLARK the Cerro Colorado copper deposit, northern Chile, which, although superficially conforming to the...(Fig. 1a). Although less important in northern Chile than the upper Eocene-lower Oligocene, or Domeyko
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geological models and creative human reasoning. As metal mining is an economic activity made possible by geological...preoccupation is also ubiquitous in geosciences and mining where it sometimes overlaps with classification...of numerical data. Organized and localized metal mining, as opposed to opportunity collecting of naturally...the highly selective mining soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines...mines and intensity of ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT mining fluctuated with politics and economics of the day, increasing
Journal (issue)
Time Heavy-duty pumping systems are the norm in mining, but newer equipment designs and materials are......................................4 Evolution Mining Purchases Battle North Gold......................Alamos Selects Contractor to Build Santana Gold Mine in Mexico.........................................system to sink a shaft at a potash mine in Belarus. (Photo: Redpath Mining Contractors and Engineers) DEPARTMENTS...its attention to natural resources (i.e., metal mining). The world faces an insatiable need for electricity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ideal case, to assist in the planning of selective mining. Introduction T H E ECONOMIC GEOLOGY of polluting...processes operate. Environmental standards for the mining and smelting industries, however, are being improved...Porphyry copper deposits account for 60% of the world's mine production of copper and constitute 80% of ore reserves...Mocho X 43. Quellaveco 44. Michiquillay X X X Chile 45. Cerro Blanco 46. Chuquicamata SAI X SAI S...(Samame Boggio, 1980), Tintaya (Samame Boggio, 1980) Chile: Andacollo (Llaumett P. et al., 1975), 2 Los Pelambres
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 86, 1991, pp. 1187-1205 Gold Metallogeny of Chile RICHARD an Introduction H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill...poorlymineralized. Paucityof golddepositsin the coastalzoneof Chile, concentration of highsulfidationand porphyry-typedepositsin...copper and silver enrichmentin northernand central Chile which took place during the Oligoceneand early Mioceneand...CHILEhasbeena modestgoldproducerfor the last central Chile (24o-37 ø S; Flores, 1942; Ruiz et al., fivecenturies...by-product of coppermining.The 18 principal tral Chile, commonlyat altitudescloseto or greater depositsincludedin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archer and Main, 1971). Over the years, placer gold mining also took place on Rude Creek (Fig. 2), 12 km southeast... 0.18 g/t Au, 0.17% Mo, and 1.4 g/t Ag (Casino Mining Corporation, 2021). Chapman et al. (2014, 2018...Cu-Au Till Glaciated Cu Cu-Mo Cu, Au, Mo Quebrada Blanca Taurus, Bluff Pebble Apatite, chalcopyrite...filled with jarosite, limonite, goethite, and hematite. The deep weathering has obliterated bedrock textures...with Potato Gulch (Fig. 2). In addition to Snrich hematite, they recovered ferberite, hübnerite, bismuthinite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black and red chalcedony (containing hypogene hematite). At the contact with the pyrite-quartz body,...FeS) and galena. The outermost zone consists of hematite, magnetite, and Fe-Mn-Zn-Ca-Mg carbonates. Most...However, the presence in the pyrite-quartz body of hematite within quartz suggests that, locally, the fluids...the first historic record of production from the district is in 1630 (Bowditch, 1935, and references therein)...Cerro de Pasco Corporation. In the early 1970s, the mine was nationalized and was integrated into the state-owned
Report (issue)
Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits.........................deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg in...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central...the date of a study, considering the extent of mining at that date. At Batu Hijau, Indonesia, Arif and
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...and CopperGold Deposits at Los Pelambres, Central Chile José Perelló, Richard H. Sillitoe, Constantino...History of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Northern Chile Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Utah Geology and Exploration Progress
Book
org/details/geologyofchile0000unse The Geology of Chile • The Geologica l Society of London Books Editorial...T. & GIBBO, s, W . (eds) 2007 . The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society, London. CHARRIER, R., PINTO...the Andean Orogeo in Chile. Jn: MORENO, T. & GrnsoNs, W. (eds) The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society...Society, London, 21-114. The Geology of Chile EDITED BY TERESA MORENO Earth Sciences Institute 'J aume...\ii . Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
skarn formation beneath Lascar Volcano, northern Chile: a petrographic and geochemical study of xenoliths...Avenida Santa Maria 0104, Casilla 10465, Santiago, Chile A B S TR A CT Calcsilicate xenoliths occur in...the mineralizing fluids. Key words: Argentina; Chile; Lascar Volcano; skarn; Yacoraite Formation. I...stratovolcano located in the high Andes of northern Chile. Its geology, petrology and geochemistry were described...ages occurs in surrounding basement outcrops in Chile and Argentina. These have all been considered as
 
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