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Wittichenite from
Colquijirca mine, Colquijirca mining district, Tinyahuarco district, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wittichenite
Formula:Cu3BiS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wittichenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Colquijirca mine, Colquijirca mining district, Tinyahuarco district, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:64211
Long-form Identifier:1:3:64211:6
GUID (UUID V4):cc01ef0e-e36c-4787-b5f3-481b3d6e4b19
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY JUNE--JULY,. 1955 MINE WALDEMAR OF COLQUIJIRCA, No. 4 PERU. LINDGREN. Introduction.--The...productivesilver mine of North and South America, is situated 8 kilometers south of Cerro de Pasco in the foothills...an elevationof about4,ooo meters. It is a small mine; the greatestdepth attained,as far as I know, is...For comparison, it may be recalledthat the Premier mine, British Columbia,produced27,ooo,oooouncesof silver...Standard Mine produced4,ooo,oooouncesin 1925. The whole silver productionof the Tintic district from 1869
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu-Zn-Pb-(Au-Ag) Mineralization in the Colquijirca District, Central Peru: Deposit-Scale Mineralogical Patterns...AND LLUÍS FONTBOTÉ2 1Bilbao 2Sciences 295, Lima, Peru de la Terre et de l’environnement, Université de...CH-1205, Genève, Switzerland Abstract At Colquijirca, central Peru, a Miocene diatreme-dome complex is associated...deposits, Smelter and Colquijirca, located in the northern sector of the district, are part of a continuously...peripheral ZnPb-(Ag) ores (Colquijirca deposit). The Smelter-Colquijirca corridor has undergone minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu-Zn-Pb-(Au-Ag) Mineralization in the Colquijirca District, Central Peru: Deposit-Scale Mineralogical Patterns...AND LLUÍS FONTBOTÉ2 1Bilbao 2Sciences 295, Lima, Peru de la Terre et de l’environnement, Université de...CH-1205, Genève, Switzerland Abstract At Colquijirca, central Peru, a Miocene diatreme-dome complex is associated...deposits, Smelter and Colquijirca, located in the northern sector of the district, are part of a continuously...peripheral ZnPb-(Ag) ores (Colquijirca deposit). The Smelter-Colquijirca corridor has undergone minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY AND MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL ULRICH PERU PETERSEN CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ................................................... Cerro de Pasco ..................................................the center of the districts to the margins. This district zoning is modifiedby local or orebodyzoning and...complexenterprise,includingthe Goyllarisquizga coal mine, concentrating, smelting,and refiningfacilitiesand...observations and ideas. MAJOR ORE DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL PERU 409 General summariesare presentedby McLaughlin
Journal (issue)
TSKnerals of i'eru ! Indian miner, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1869 (Simonin, 1869). J3E(mes and J3E(merals...crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection; Jeff Scovil............................... History of Peru Mining in Peru The Mineral Specimen Business C o l l e c....................... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La Libertad PASTO.......................... Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u r a -H u
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W. XI--WITTICHENITE .• NUFFIELD. ABSTRACT. Part of a distinct crystal of wittichenite from Schapbachthal...artificial 3CmS-Bi•S3. The compound3CmS'Bi•S, (wittichenite) was easily made by dry fusion,but not 3Cu2S'2Bi•S...occurrencesrevealed only wittichenite and emplectiteand other known minerals. WITTICHENITE. IN thenewDana (3)...Phillips (16, p. 461), 6.1 calculatedfor arti- wITTICHENITE (KLAPROTHITE). 149 ficial3Cu2S-Bi2S3 by GaudinandDicke...testthisconclusion fusions corresponding to 3Cu:S-Bi:S3(wittichenite) and 3Cu:S'2Bi:Sa (klaprothite) were made with
Report (issue)
Wittichenite Cu3 BiS3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point...15 19.39 Total 99.48 99.1 99.8 100.00 (1) Daniel mine, Wittichen, Germany; by electron microprobe. (2)...Arizona. In Canada, in the Maid of Erin mine, Rainy Hollow district, British Columbia; and at Cobalt, Ontario...Sedmochislenitsi mine, Vratsa district, Bulgaria. At the Colquijirca mine, Junı́n, Peru. From Seathwaite...England. At Tjøstulflaten, Norway. In the Kletno mine, Sudetes Mountains, Poland. Additional localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ores from a Porphyry System: the Morococha District, Peru Diego Benites, Lisard Torró, Jean Vallance...Ores from a Porphyry System: the Morococha District, Peru, Ore Geology Reviews (2021), doi: https://doi...Ores from a Porphyry System: the Morococha District, Peru 3 Diego Benitesa, Lisard Torróa,*, Jean Vallancea...Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, Lima 15088, 7 Peru 8 b Department...Miocene porphyry- 20 related Morococha District, Central Peru. Among the investigated minerals, LA-ICP-MS
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Universidad Nacional de lngenieria, and Newmont Peru Limited Gerente de Exploraciones Av. Jose Galvez...Galvez Barrenechea 218, Urb. Corpac Lima-San Isidro, Peru Prof. Dr. ESTEBAN CEDILW Facultad de Minas, Metalurgia...place in September 1986 in Cusco, Peru, sponsored by Multiciencias (Peru) and UNESCO. During this seminar...Latorre, Director of the Multiciencias courses in Peru strongly supported the whole organization of the...Occurrences in the Paleozoic of the Yauli Dome, Central Peru H. W. Kobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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block I experienced recently when visiting a gold mine in virtually unmetamorphosed ground. A fault cuts..."common sense" observations described from the gold mine with the chert and the organic matter. Another potent...Alterations of Conglomeratic Uranium Ores, Pronto Mine, Ontario, Canada E.Wm. Heinrich (With 1 Figure)...Observations on Ore Rhythmites of the Trzebionka Mine, Upper Silesian-Cracow Region, Poland L. Fontbote...Alteration and Mineralization in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, U.S.A. R.D
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deposits, can only be considered to some extent. Mining selects, if possible, deposits which are not complicated...S. Australia W. F . H A E D E R L E , La Oroya, Peru H. D. HOLLAND, Princeton, N . J . H . E. K A P P...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1). This deposit, exploited by the most recent mining operation in the area, has an estimated original...only the secondary ore, the mine has a projected life until 2022. The mine will produce ca. 1 Mt of copper...until recently, when the orebody was exposed due to mining, that a complete view is possible of the relationships...Yesares et al. 2011a; Tornos et al. 2014), or the mining project (Doyle 1996; Doyle et al. 2003). The recent...Scheiber et al. (2015). HCH and HCL refer, following mine terminology, to cementation zones developed on the
Book (edition)
PAGE Extraction of Metals and Minerals 398 Mining, 398; Milling, 1+10; Smelting, 1+11+; Refining...and as such was taught as one phase of mining in the early mining schools. As greater attention was paid...tive industries. The early kinship with mining, and metal mining in particular, with which economic geology...specialized subdivision of economic geology known as mining geology which deals especially with the problems...problems of ore deposits and their relation to metal mining and, to some extent, with metallurgy. This relation
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shales, hornfels and granites of the Harzburg district, showed that the amount of boron decreases from...abundant in arsenopyriterich samples from Wongabah Mine, characteristically forming aggregates of fibrous...native Bi. Similarly, tetrahedrite is replaced by wittichenite (Cu3BiS3). Considering the replacement of tetrahedrite...tetrahedrite and subsequent precipitation of wittichenite from solutions. However in this case, migration...the replacement of wittichenite by native Bi as a result of dissolution of wittichenite and precipitation
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...no. for Quespisiza, Chile, read Quespisiza, 3, Peru. 354 and r on the upper faces, and and the face...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds of silver wires, up...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
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Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds of silver wires, up...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and the current mining depth...area of the Kristineberg VHMS deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden .......................................A. Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the Røros ore district, Norway: setting and formation ................Matos The Jörn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry and...for VHMS deposits, Kristineberg area, Skellefte District, Sweden .....................................
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...inhabited continent. Also, to those exploration and mining geologists, and the personnel of foreign geological...L. Jensen Salt Lake City, Utah CONTENTS "The mining industry is infinitely worse off today than it...the politicians' failure to recognize that the mining industry is a highly risky business." James Boyd
Book (edition)
SphaJerite. xx 12 mm, Morococha, Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5 mm, Iturnbiara...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)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga
Report (volume)
Photomicrographs of polished specimen of ore from Magma mine, Superior, Ariz__-____________________________ ____...camera. Davy and Farnham 10 state that For the mining geologist, photographs of the ore minerals and...PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF POLISHED SURFACE OF SPECIMEN FROM MAGMA MINE, SUPERIOR, ARIZ. Pyrite (py), chalcopyrite (cp)...(Co,Ni)SbS_ _-_______.._: _..._ 86,88, 100, Wittichenite,3Cu2S.Bi2S3.---------------___._-------_......HgClj negative. Specimen examined is from O'Brien mine, Cobalt, Ontario. Is intergrown with another mineral
Book (edition)
British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod, and Nome, and quartz
Report (volume)
Photomicrographs of polished section of specimen from Magma mine, Superior, Ariz____--__---_--_-_____---_______.____...afforded by the resources of the Harvard Laboratory of Mining Geology. In the 8 years since the publication of...Resources; J. H. Moses, of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, Peru; H. J. Fraser, of the California Institute...devised is that developed in the Laboratory of Mining Geology, Harvard University. After years of trial...Graton and J. W. Vanderwilt in the Laboratory of Mining Geology, Harvard University. Some details of the
Report (volume)
oh tee seareae 203 The Banska Stiavnica Ore District: Relationship between Metallogenetic Processes...an eae eer 213 Mineralizations at the Rozalia Mine, HodruSa WU cia ORK oderay UPrcicn oa Saly, and...Slovakia, and many other deposits (e.g. several mining districts in the Oas-Gutai Mtns., Tokaj Mtns.,...to rich mining cities whose splendor still lasts, and also supported the development of mining technologies...treatise on medieval mining methods by Agricola is based on his experience from these mining districts. In the
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China’s largest Mo metallogenic and producing province. It contains a reserve of >6 Mt Mo in metal from... Henan Institute of Geological Survey, Jinyuan Mining Industry Co. Ltd. (Lingbao, Henan), China Molybdenum...(2013T60028, 2012M520107, 2012M510261), the Jinyuan Mining Industry Co. Ltd. (Lingbao, Henan), China National...(HuaXiong Block) ranks as the largest molybdenum province in the world (Li et al. 2007b; see Chap. 2). In...and largest orogenic-type Ag-Pb-Zn metallogenic province in the world (Chen et al. 2009b; Zhang et al.
 
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