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Specularite from
El Abra Mine, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite var: Specularite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Specularite data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Abra Mine, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:617224
Long-form Identifier:1:3:617224:4
GUID (UUID V4):41eedb5d-6138-42f6-ac2e-0c7488d94d95
Nearest other occurrences of Specularite
51.7km (32.2 miles) Ministro Hales Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003)...Toquepala & Cuajone Los Pelambres Los BroncesRío Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro...Cerro Colorado Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri Chuquicamata dist. Koloula Frieda...Frieda River dist.(Nena) Wafi-Golpu Gaby El Salvador Potrerillos Marte & Caspiche Taca Taca Bajo Bajo...18° ARICA BOLIVIA Collahuasi Chuquicamata El Abra 22° A AL C M E ALT O Regional- and District-Scale
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of mineral deposits. Sixteen mining districts in Chile, and 24 in Argentina, were attributed to the seismically...zones roughly parallel to the axis of the Peru-Chile trench (Carachas-Portillo, Choquelimpie, Iquique...fracture zones roughly perpendicular to the trench (El Salvador, Maricunga, Jaroma, Ujina, Tumbaya and Incahuasi-LeoÂn...Ulriksen (1990) for the northern and central part of Chile and from Mapa Minero (1966) for the northwestern...information was obtained from Mapa GeoloÂgico de Chile (1982) and Mapa GeoloÂgico de la RepuÂblica Argentina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
events in the Chuquicamata porphyry copper system, Chile Peter Reynolds ) , Casey Ravenhurst 1, Marcos Zentilli...deposits of the Andes, New Developments’. Concepcion Chile, October 17–18, 1994. Proceedings 2, 1647–1651.x...largest porphyry copper systems, Chuquicamata, Chile. Accurate and precise dating are required to separate...descriptions of a single deposit is that of El Salvador deposit in Chile ŽGustafson and Hunt, 1975., and a wide...relationships Že.g., Gustafson and Hunt Ž1975. at El Salvador; Clark et al. Ž1977. at Cerro Colorado;
Report (issue)
Copper Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits..................porphyry copper deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central...by as much as about 100°C for samples from El Teniente, Chile. When binned in 10°C intervals, the median...reported homogenization temperature range in the El Teniente data is 380°–390°C. At Bajo de la Alumbrera
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile a a Darryl D. Lindsay , Marcos Zentilli & JOSE...Superintendencia de Geologia Codelco-Chile, Division Chuquicamata , Chuquicamata, Chile Published online: 06 Jul...Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile, International Geology Review, 37:11, 945-958, DOI:...Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile DARRYL D. LINDSAY, MARCOS ZENTILLI, Department of...Superintendencia de Geologia Codelco-Chile, Division Chuquicamata, Chuquicamata, Chile Downloaded by [UQ Library]
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...of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known Concentration...Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern Chile Geology of...N. Moreto, André Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco
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...the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, some 240 km northeast of Antofagasta (22º 17.5' S, 68º 54.5' W). Outcropping
Book (volume)
existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert............................................ 65 T he El T eniente M egabreccia D eposit,th e W o rld ’s L...the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology...localised in the U.S. “South-west”, and in northern Chile and southern Peru,and were Cu-Mo orebodies (Gilmour...Cook and Porter;all in this publication) and in Chile, Argentina and Peru in South America (see Camus;
Book
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...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously...all within the US "South­ west" and in northern Chile and neighbouring southern Peru. With the exception
Book
Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun.... . . . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Sulfides in the Greenstone Belt of South-Central Chile - An Overview G. Alfaro and S. Callao . . . . ....Formation and Massive Sulfide Orebodies, South-Central Chile: Geologic and Isotopic Aspects S. Callao, G. Alfaro
Report (issue)
figures were prepared in the Denver office of the El. S. Geological Survey under the direc¬ tion of Ann...anticline” near El Mezquital, Rio Blanco valley, Nuevo Leon.56 22. Cross section along El Novillo canyon...Tamaulipas. 60 24. Cross section from Sierra del Abra to Sierra de Tamazopa, San Luis Potosi, by Laurence...and northwest part of the Gulf of Mexico mobile province, a sedimentary geosyncline. Peaks and ridges are...therefore, recognized the similar origin of the El Abra Mid-Cretaceous limestone thrust eastwards over
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)
batholith in Nevada, and associated with the Yerington mine and the AnnMason deposit, provide a basis of comparison...Laramide, mid-Mesozoic) Limit of Basin and Range Province copper deposits post-Laramide cover Laramide...America, showing the limit of the Basin and Range province, the schematic representation of domains that... ROOT ZONES OF PORPHYRY SYSTEMS Potrerillos, Chile (Olson, 1989), were dismembered in contractional... 1984; Dilles et al., 2000). Both the Yerington mine and Ann-Mason deposits are exposed continuously
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are in the range of 180–250°C for large (5 mm) specularite grains, and >90–160 °C for botryoidal hematite...magmatism and ore formation in the El Abra porphyry copper deposit, northern Chile: implication for long-lived...dating of minerals in alteration halos of Superior Province massive sulfide deposits: syngenesis versus metamorphism...displacement at the Chuquicamata porphyry copper deposit, Chile. Economic Geology, 94, 937948. McInnes, B.I.A.,...from the East Qinling molybdenum belt, Shaanxi Province, China. Economic Geology, 92, 827-835. Stein,
Book
affects its present characteristics as a minera1 province, because of the exposure of the various depth...+j//+V+\ Henderson^*/-\ El Teniente K\ ^ΐ&^" 4km tourmaline f breccia pipes Chile Fig. 27-4. + + +...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...and contains the principal Soviet porphyry Cu-Mo province estimated to represent some 15 Mt Cu and 200 Tt
Book
affects its present characteristics as a mineral province, because of the exposure of the various depth...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...and contains the principal Soviet porphyry Cu-Mo province estimated to represent some 15 Mt Cu and 200 Tt...and Au mineralization this is a distinct Sn(W) province. 1026 Fig. 28-9. Kounrad "porphyry" Cu-Mo deposit
Report (volume)
based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...government believed might someday be economic ta mine. Stratiform deposits of large areal extent, such...EXAMPLES High Plateau, Del Norte Cty, USCA Coto Mine, Luzon, PLPN (Wells and others, 1946) (LeBlanc...DEPOSITS Name Ace of Spades Adobe Canyon Gp. Ajax Alice Mine Allan (Johnson) Alta Hill Althouse Alyce and Blue
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...ore body structural complexities: KDC East Gold Mine, South Africa . . ...............................Pålsson Tracking ore mineral characteristics from mine to concentrate: the fate of electrum at the Cavanacaw...distribution in sulphides of the epithermal Co-O mine, Mindanao, Philippines ..........................Hagemann & Leonid Danyushevsky Ingodite from the Jakub Mine, Kasejovice, Czech Republic Jan Soumar & Jiří Sejkora
Book (edition)
• t --•- """"" ' The Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By...measurements have been retained in specific cases such as mine levels when measured in feet, values of gold and...developing an annual ton of new copper capacity from mine through the refinery without intrastructure costs...fold in three years. As an example, the " Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act,' ' which was initially...resources in the future.'' In 1977, a surface coal mine regulation that greatly restricts the areas of strip
Report (issue)
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Book (volume)
Cover Photo: Chapter 20. 10 La Caridad Copper Mine, I. Salas, Guillermo P. 90-28579 ■ Sonora. 98765432...173 15. Baja California Peninsula Metallogenic Province . 177 16. Summary of structural and stratigraphic...17. Geology and mineral deposits of the El Boleo copper mine, Santa Rosalia district, Baja California...195 18. Sierra Madre Occidental Metallogenic Province . Guillermo P. Salas 197 19. Cananea copper... H. Monje H. 215 23. Geology of the Tayoltita Mine, San Dimas District, Durango H. M. Clark . 219
Book
reasons for the approach taken Mineral deposit or mine? A genetic model as the basis for exploration The...many geologists who have given their time during mine visits and responded to our queries. We have benefited...Decline Doline A downward inclined tunnel into a mine or potential ore body. A funnel-shaped depression...shaft excavated upwards for connecting levels in a mine or ore body. Ripping The removal of overburden...of the problems which face the mine geologist. The function of the mine geologist varies considerably
Report (volume)
Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...(all types) Crushers Crushing Rolls NEW YORK Mine Pumps Oil Engines Sampling Machinery Screens Stamp...all the metals, and a corresponding expansion of mine work. The MINES HANDBOOK will hereafter be published...Tuckahoe, N. Y., April, 1920. Vll THE MINES MINE HOISTS HANDBOOK AND Years of experience in building...Wellman- Send for our Bulletin F. 5, "Electric Mine Hoists," and get in closer touch with W-S-M equipment
Report (volume)
Revista de Ia Union Geofisica Mexicana auspiciada por el Instituto de Geofisica de la Universidad Nacional...Newfoundland and Labrador Mineral Resources Div. Bull.-Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Mines...Aut6noma Potosina Folletos Tecnicos publicados por el Instituto de Geologia y Metalurgia. San Luis Potosi...of the Milford Flat quadrangle and the Old Moscow Mine, Star District, Beaver County, Utah [abs.]: Dissert...Barnes, W. H. 04402 09476 Abo, A. E. Base metal province of Yukon: Canadian Mining and Metal!. Bull., v
Book
disseminating the information, the mine geologists and mine managers who have made the mine visits a rewarding experience...concentration required to achieve the break-even point for a mine in terms of revenue and costs. Any detailed exploration...epochs. Following Tumeaure (1955), a metallogenic province may be defined as a mineralized area or region...The size of a metallogenic province can be as large as the Superior Province (Canadian Shield) or as small...as the Upper Michigan Peninsula native copper province. Similarly, a metallogenic epoch can be as broad
 
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