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Limonite from
Bajo de la Alumbrera Mine, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bajo de la Alumbrera Mine, Andalgalá, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:617734
Long-form Identifier:1:3:617734:8
GUID (UUID V4):6c7f2818-2d82-4bee-82ab-18cd8c56f0e0
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
8.0km (5.0 miles) Esperanza South-East Vein, Alto de la Blenda, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
8.6km (5.3 miles) Farallón Negro, Hualfín, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
39.2km (24.4 miles) Filo Colorado Cu-Mo deposit, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
43.2km (26.8 miles) Papachacra pegmatites, Papachacra, Corral Quemado, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina
References
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Breccia-Hosted Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit at Agua Rica, Argentina: Progressive Unroofing of a Magmatic Hydrothermal... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of... Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of...Farallón Negro Volcanic Complex in northwestern Argentina. The Agua Rica deposit lies next to the contact...ch *Present address: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden
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Gold-Rich Porphyry Copper Deposits R. H. Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial...gin/ton gold are briefly described from northwest Argentina, northwest Pakistan, the Intermontane belt of...studies of the Saindak, Pakistan, and Bajo de La Alumbrera, Argentina, porphyry copper deposits and examinations...around copper-gold cores at both Saindak and Bajo de La Alumbrera precludes the rigorous application of this...arbitrarily I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. BAJODE LA ALUMBRERA, Argentina. SAINDAK{South Body), PQkiston. CARIBOO-BELL
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1535–1574 Geology of the Bajo de la Alumbrera Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Argentina JOHN M. PROFFETT† P...Alaska 99577 Abstract The Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Argentina, is in the eastern Andes...overlie a low-angle segment of the subduction zone. Alumbrera, now above the transition from steep to flat subduction...deposited with P2 porphyry. The youngest features at Alumbrera include small postore normal faults, gypsum veins...enrichment. Introduction BAJO DE LA ALUMBRERA (referred to as “Alumbrera” here for brevity) is a major
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San Luis, Argentina a b N. P. Urbina , P. Sruoga & L. Malvicini b a Universidad Nacional de San Luis..., Av. Ejército de los Andes 950, San Luis, 5700, Argentina b CONICET , Secretaría de Minería , Av. J...J. A. Roca 651, Capital Federal, 1322, Argentina Published online: 06 Jul 2010. To cite this article:...Volcanic Belt in the Sierras Pampeanas of San Luis, Argentina, International Geology Review, 39:4, 287-306,...Universidad Nacional de San Luis,, Av. Ejército de los Andes 950, 5700 San Luis, Argentina P. SRUOGA, AND
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porphyry Cu-Mo belt Cuajone-QuellavecoToquepala 20° La Colorado Rosario-Uyina-Quebrada Blanca Bolivia...porphyry Cu-Mo belt La Escondida Axis of P 25° El Salvador Bajo de la Alumbrera Miocene porphyry Cu-Au...Cu-Au belt 30° Chile Argentina Miocene porphyry Cu-Mo belt Santiago 0 50 El Teniente 35° 75° ...PALEOCENE TO EOCENE, PERU 8115000 mN N Cuajone Mine Quellaveco Proposed Pit 8110000 mN Qu ella ...Inc ap 8090000 mN 0 uq uio Fa ult Toquepala Mine Porphyry Intrusive Complexes (Paleocene) Granodiorite
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Beijing NU 100083, China. MA 2) Département de géologie et de génie géologique, Université Laval, Québec...Québec, QC G1V0A6, Canada ED 3) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005,...and Mavrogenes, 2003). Evidence from the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu–Au deposit suggests that decompression...metallogenic belt NU in western Qinling (southern Gansu province), is a recently discovered epithermal MA gold...sphalerite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, hematite and limonite. Gangue minerals are dominated by quartz, calcite
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existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....exploration regions in the Russian Far East, Argentina, Vietnam, China, India and Iran. His passion for...Iran ian P o rp h y ry C u-M o-A u D eposits Brent LA. Mclnnes, Noreen J. Evans, Frank Q, Fut Steve Garwin...lm alyk (K a rm ak y r-D a ln e e ) and S au k b u la k C u-A u P o rp h y ry System s, U zbekistan IgorM...the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology
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the Tangjiaping Mo deposit, Dabie Shan, Henan Province: implications for the nature of the porphyry systems...Key Laboratory of Orogen and Crust Evolution, Department of Geology , Peking University , Beijing, China...the Tangjiaping Mo deposit, Dabie Shan, Henan Province: implications for the nature of the porphyry systems...the Tangjiaping Mo deposit, Dabie Shan, Henan Province: implications for the nature of the porphyry systems...Key Laboratory of Orogen and Crust Evolution, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyry deposits, which includes Bingham and Bajo de la Alumbrera. Red Chris is also classified as an A vein...in northern British Columbia, Canada. from where mine concentrate will be shipped. The Red Chris property...assessment reviews in 2005 and 2006, respectively, but mine feasibility at that time was precluded by the lack...extend the hydroelectric grid into the region, and mine permitting began. Continued drilling through 2011...sedimentary basins KJb Pzs JTri J Tri ! Pzs J LA RM 300 TrJ KJb Ji Schaft Creek TrJ Tri km
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IMAI Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo Present address: Department of Earth...a Late Cenozoic porphyry-type Cu metallogenic province (e.g., Gustafson, 1978). For instance, a number...Nasu (Sambon'yari) 021024 Kusatsu-Shirane (Gunma Mine) 03705 Kusatsu-Shirane (Ishizu) 04704 Kusatsu-Shirane...andesite from Masaki area [63] associated with limonite deposits, and in the Hishikari lower andesite...intrusive rocks at the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit, northwestern Argentina, are <0.6 wt% and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Yuchiling deposit (Li et al. 2009b). Later LA-ICPMS zircon U–Pb studies (Li et al. 2012a) indicated...Deposita (2013) 48:505–524 507 Fig. 2 Regional and mine geology of the Yuchiling district. a Regional geology...andesites, and dacites, with minor rhyolites. SHRIMP and LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages indicate that eruption of...or interpreting it as part of a large igneous province linked to a mantle plume (Sun et al. 1981; Zhang...biotite. The proportion of biotite is less than 5 vol%. LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb analyses indicate an intrusion
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chalcopyrite → copper-bearing pyrite + copperbearing limonite → galena + sphalerite Sulfide zoning (outward...K2O 4.27 P2O5 0.03 H2O 0.60 Total 98.89 Ppm 82.17 La Ce 161.50 Nd 65.88 Sm 10.37 Eu 1.90 Gd 7.44 Tb 0...Indonesia: McDonald and Arnold, 1994; Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina: Ulrich and Heinrich, 2001; Ulrich...Geochemistry of lamprophyres in the Laowangzhai gold mine, Yunnan: Geochimica, v. 25, p. 255–263 (in Chinese...Petrological study of lamprophyres in the Laowangzhai gold mine, Yunnan: Geological Sciences, v. 32, p. 74–87 (in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et al. / Ore Geology Reviews 36 (2009) 25–51 province in a continental arc setting; deposits there are...the GPCB are fractionated, with LREE enrichment (La/YbN: 11 to 47) and display a steep negative slop...distinguishing them from the Linzizong volcanics (La/YbN: 7 to 15; Mo et al., 2003). Compared with intra-mineralized...pre-mineralized intrusions are characterized by low LREE (La: 5.5 to 9.0 ppm) and ΣREE abundance (27.3 to 44.6...post-mineralized intrusions are characterized by high LREE (La: 23.4 to 43.8 ppm) and ΣREE contents (122.2 of 197
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negative Nb, Ta, Th, and Ti anomalies, and high (La/Yb)N ratios and Mg# values (+11.4 to +18.3),...3C, D), atacamite, and azurite. Together with limonite and hematite, these supergene minerals generally...China (Liu et al., 2009), the Bajo de la Alumbrera Cu-Au deposit, Argentina (Ulrich et al., 2002), and the...deposit, China (Jiang et al., 2014), the Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina (Ulrich et al., 2002), and the Butte...mineralization of Yinan Au–Cu–Fe deposit, Shandong Province: evidence from fluid inclusions and H–O isotopes
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et al., 2015). MPSA is currently constructing a mine and has slated production to begin at the Botija...basement rocks of the Caribbean large igneous province (Hoernle et al., 2004; Gazel et al., 2009, 2011;...map showing the location of the one current gold mine (Molejon), seven planned copper porphyry mines,...zone of oxidized, textureless to mottled clay-limonite latosol that grades downward into saprolite that...Salvador (Gustafson and Hunt, 1975) and Bajo de la Alumbrera (Proffett, 2003); however, the orientation
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Genesis of the Kuergasheng Pb–Zn Deposit, Xinjiang Province, Northwest China: Constraints from Geology, Fluid...located in the Western Tianshan Orogen, Xinjiang Province, China. The ore bodies are mainly hosted in sandstone...1991. Since the establishment of the Kuergasheng mine, the deposit has proven reserves of 288, 800 t Pb...with minor chalcocite and azurite (Figure 4). Limonite and malachite are observed in some supergene ores...Some ores underwent supergene oxidation, forming limonite, malachite, and porous structures (Figure 3A,B)
Book
Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit,Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration and Discovery...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously...f southern Russia. Further east a metallogenic province embracing early to mid Mesozoic deposits runs...the younger Cu-Au rich porphyries o f western Argentina. In addition, there are intervals in which particular...alley Ray T w in B uttes C hino/S anta R ita C ananea La C aridad C erro C olorado Petaquilla C uajone T oquepala
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of the Late Mesozoic Central Asian carbonatite province extending from the south-east of Russia to southern...Lebedev et al. 2007). The Central Asian carbonatite province forms part of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic alkaline intraplate... 2006). The carbonatites of the Central Asian province are both diverse in composition and multiphase...the carbonatite complexes of the Central Asian province (Vladykin 2010). The region in which the carbonatite...of the Late Mesozoic, Central Asian carbonatite province (a) and geological map showing the location of
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Xing-Chun Zhang & Hong Zhong & Rui-Zhong Hu & Wei-De Zhou & Chao Li Received: 28 October 2011 / Accepted:...In situ Hf isotopic analyses on zircons by using LA-MC-ICP-MS indicate that the εHf(t) values of zircons...consist of malachite, covellite, neotocite, and limonite. Gangue minerals include quartz, K-feldspar, biotite...in other porphyry deposits (e.g., Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina; Ulrich et al. 2002) due to their...2.26 2.18 2.69 Na2O MnO TiO2 P2O5 LOI Total Mg# La Ce Pr Nd Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm 4.12 0.33 0.27
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Campana Mahuida Porphyry Cu Deposit, Neuquén, Argentina: Implications for Porphyry Cu Exploration MARTA...MARTA FRANCHINI,† CONICET and CIMAR, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Av. Buenos...Aires 1400 (8300) Neuquén, Argentina AGNES IMPICCINI CIMAR, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional...Buenos Aires 1400 (8300) Neuquén, Argentina LAWRENCE MEINERT, Department of Geology, Smith College, Northampton...Northampton, Massachusetts 01063 GEORG GRATHOFF, Department of Geology, Portland State University, P.O. Box
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depleted in compatible elements, and characterized by an La/Yb ratio between 10 and 25 (Richards et al., 2012;...volcaniclastic rocks Andesitic volcanic rocks Quartz ± limonite ± magnetite veins 3,221,500 mN Faults: based...geochronology of regional volcanism hosting the Bajo de la Alumbrera Cu-Au deposit: Implications for porphyry-related...(U-Th)/He chronometers, Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold deposit, Argentina: Mineralium Deposita, v....of the Reko Diq porphyry district, Balochistan province, Pakistan: Unpublished report submitted to Tethyan
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the Dawson Range Cu–Au±Mo Belt of the Tintina Au province was constrained using Pb and stable isotope compositions...handling: G. Beaudoin T. Bineli Betsi (*) : D. Lentz Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick...bineli@unb.ca M. Chiaradia Département de Minéralogie, Université de Genève, Rues des Maraîchers 13, Geneva...Geneva 4 Switzerland K. Kyser Department of Geological Sciences, Queens University, Miller Hall, Queen’s...Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada R. A. Creaser Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University
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the Henduan Mountains in Deqin County, Yunnan Province, southern Tibet. A team from the Yunnan Geology...third Regional Geological Survey Team of Sichuan Province, the third Team of Yunnan Geology and Exploration... chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, magnetite, limonite, and malachite. The most abundant ore minerals...consists of malachite, azurite, tenorite, and limonite, and gangue minerals are diopside, actinolite...fractionated, with LREE/HREE = 2.1–6.3 (average, 3.4) and (La/Yb)N = 0.9–7.5. Most of the samples show a negative
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7 c Key 8 Beijing 100029, PR China 9 d Department Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Geodynamics...long, 0.50–5 m wide fault breccia zone 116 with limonite, malachite, chlorite and epidote alteration. Calcite...Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass 200 Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) using a NexION 2000 (PerkinElmer, Canada/USA)...Audétat et al. (2015) (see Table A1). We processed the LA-ICP-MS transient signals using the Matlab- 219 ...were extracted with a − 10 kV acceleration voltage (de León, and Schmitt, 2019). The instrumental mass
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Çöpler Porphyry-Epithermal Au Deposit, Erzincan Province, Central Eastern Turkey Ali İmer,†,* Jeremy P...P. Richards, and Karlis Muehlenbachs Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta...author: e-mail, imer@ualberta.ca *Present address: Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical...(current ownership: 80% Alacer and 20% Anagold Mining). Mine production at Çöpler between 2011 and 2014 totaled...Bizmişen Çaltı İliç Ov ık ac Major deposit Major mine Strike-slip fault Thrust fault 0 10 km Keban
 
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