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Quartz from
San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrargyriteⓘ14 photos of Quartz associated with Pyrargyrite at this locality.
Miargyriteⓘ6 photos of Quartz associated with Miargyrite at this locality.
Sphaleriteⓘ6 photos of Quartz associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ6 photos of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Silverⓘ3 photos of Quartz associated with Silver at this locality.
Chalcopyriteⓘ3 photos of Quartz associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Manganese-bearing Calcite2 photos of Quartz associated with Manganese-bearing Calcite at this locality.
Realgarⓘ2 photos of Quartz associated with Realgar at this locality.
Baumstarkiteⓘ2 photos of Quartz associated with Baumstarkite at this locality.
Baryteⓘ2 photos of Quartz associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:81895
Long-form Identifier:1:3:81895:9
GUID (UUID V4):cad79f5f-85da-4c4b-b3e3-1a02560aea4b
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
3.9km (2.4 miles) ⓘMadona Mine, Madona area, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
7.0km (4.4 miles) ⓘCandelaria mine, Candelaria area, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
7.2km (4.4 miles) ⓘMargarita Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
8.7km (5.4 miles) ⓘFortuna mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
14.5km (9.0 miles) ⓘPalomo mines, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
23.6km (14.6 miles) ⓘTeresita Mine, Huachocolpa District, Huancavelica Province, Huancavelica, Peru
27.2km (16.9 miles) ⓘEsperanza 2001 Mine, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru
46.0km (28.6 miles) ⓘJulcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru
48.7km (30.2 miles) ⓘPampa Blanca, Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
49.4km (30.7 miles) ⓘFlor de Peru I claim (Tentadora Mine), Mt Ullpac (Mt Ollupac), Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silver-Rich Polymetallic Veins of the Castrovirreyna District, Central Peru: Fault Growth and Mineralization...undulatory silver veins of the Castrovirreyna district, central Peru, formed in a dilatant, anastamosing...those at Castrovirreyna. For example, there are anastamosing faults and veins in the Creede district, Colorado...Colorada district, Mexico, is highly curved (Albinson, 1988); and veins of the Fresnillo district, Mexico...between faults and are important for exploration and mining of vein-type ore deposits. Bends and other irregularities
Report (issue)
OF THE CASTRDVIRHSYNA LEAD-ZINC-SILVER DEPOSITS, PERU By Richard Wheatley Lewis, Jr. U. S. Geologic-1...nomenclature. ABSTRACT The Castrovirroyna mining district lies in the Andean Cordillera of South Central...Supervene silver ores vere first mined. Currently the district produces about 20,000 tons of laad*sinc ore and...and 50OO tons of silver ore annually* The district: Is underlain by Tertiary andesitlc rocks interbedded...interbedded with basalts and intruded by small bodies of quartz latite porphyry* The terrane reflects recent glaciatloa
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)
important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Peru. When fresh...miargyrite, polybasite, silver, calcite, dolomite, and quartz. There are essentially no significant pyrargyrite...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter...Colorado mining districts. Sparse though good crystals were found in the early years of mining in the Jo...Jo Reynolds mine and in smaller though well-formed crystals in the siliceous vein exploited in the Nabob
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs at the Palomo mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru. It is a low-temperature...van der Waals forces, Palomo mine, Peru. Introduction THE mines of Peru have yielded mineral riches for..., 1997). During its years as an active mine, the Palomo mine was not known as a specimen producer; however...cessation of mining operations in 2000, a few independent miners began working the mine for mineral specimens...some of the ïŹnest crystals of realgar known from Peru, as well as unusual pseudomorphs of orpiment after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coating miargyrite from the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru. It is triclinic and the third...R1(F) = 0.057, wR2(F ) = 0.128], aramayoite [Armonia mine, El Quevar, Argentinia: a = 7.813(2), b = 8.268(2)...specimens from the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Castrovirreyna District, Peru, was investigated...rare associate of miargyrite from the abandoned Ag mine of Saint-Marie-aux-Mines, France (Saint Jaques vein...08 and 0.28 from the epithermal quartz vein of the Koryu Au-Ag mine, Hokkaido, Japan. The new mineral
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...white quartz breccia recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps...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
2 . P')76m Purser, W I' C 198T- , ‱ Metal-mining in Peru, put and present 1by1 W. F . C. Purser. New...NIOUro.. Peru. . l. Tltle- TN~9.P8T. . -· ' ‱ 18,50 '18-182'81 Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and...social, and political development. Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and Present -a :'O > m C) m ::D...of the mines of Peru. Part~ of the book sketches the background of Peru and its mining history. The mines...divided into five chapters for the five mining areas of Peru. Part III is concerned with the economic
Journal (issue)
except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping to get the permit system properly...minerals associated with ironstones, such as siderite, quartz, millerite, galena, sphalerite, siegenite, ankerite...still very much a 'frontier place'. One supposed mine was started by a character called Otto van Stryk...Stryk who thought he had found a huge iron mine. Alas, he never got any useable ore out of it. Rick went...recognised the tell tale signs of black to greasy brown quartz, in which the crystal structure is destroyed by
Report (issue)
Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș A translation of MinerĂ­a y Metalurgia en el Antiguo PerĂș ArqueolĂłgicas...[MinerĂ­a y metalurgia en el antiguo PerĂș. English] Mining and metallurgy in ancient PerĂș / by Georg Petersen...Mines and mineral resources—Peru—History. 2. Metallurgy—Peru—History. 3. Peru— Antiquities. I. Title. TN52... Contents Introduction to the English translation of Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș Prologue . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Locality: The San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Castrovirreyna District, Peru. Occurrence: Found...RICLINIC Locality: The dumps of the GĂŒldener Falk mine near Schneeberg–NeustĂ€dtel, Schneeberg area, Saxony...und Paul. Occurrence: Associated minerals are: quartz, neustĂ€dtelite, preisingerite and goethite; rarely...copper deposit, 30 km southwest of Yunta, Olary district, South Australia, Australia (Lat. 32° 41' S, Long...Crespigny (b. 1950), Executive Chairman of Normandy Mining Limited, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide
Book
Gemstonesof Peru . TO ' ..J.O[_)(ON '\J./ITI1 KY Be-51 R~GAF-P5 f JaroslavHyrsl Gemstonesof...Gemstonesof Peru GRflnil © 2012 Text by Jaroslav Hyr~I © 2012 Photos by Jaroslav Hycll (166), Fidel Salinas...Coll. Z. Rosales. Photo J Hyrsl. 6 Introduction Peru is a country rich in minerals, with numerous very...Crowley et al. (1997) and most recently in the book "Peru, Paradise of Minerals" (Hyrsl et al., 2011 ). N...deals with faceted gemstones, which are very rare in Peru. And finally, the reader can find the bibliography
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street ‱ Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Assistant Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans
Journal (issue)
.89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .95 by J. HyrĆĄl Pseudomorphs from Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The
Report (issue)
tetrahedrite, other silver sulfosalts, calcite, dolomite, quartz. Distribution: An important ore of silver, not...Himmelsfürst mine, Erbisdorf, near Freiberg, Saxony. From Hiendelaencina, Guadalajara Province, Spain. At...Hecla Rosebud mine, Rosebud district, Pershing Co., and from the Reese River district, Lander Co.; in...in Idaho, in the Poorman mine, Silver City district, Owyhee Co. In Canada, from Cobalt, Ontario. In Bolivia...Atacama, Chile. At San Cristobal, Junin, and in the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica, Peru. From Broken Hill
Report (issue)
880(2) α = 100.32(2)◩ X-ray Powder Pattern: Animas mine, Bolivia; similar to baumstarkite. 2.806 (100),...30.6 14.1 0.2 20.8 Total 99.84 100.0 (1) Animas mine, Bolivia; corresponding to (Ag2.97 Cu0.07 )ÎŁ=3.04...miargyrite, stannite, pyrite, quartz. Distribution: From the Animas mine, Chocaya, Potosı́, Bolivia [TL]...Herminia, Julcani district, and in the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica, Peru. From the Armonia mine, El Quevar...Quevar, Salta Province, and in the Pirquitas deposit, Riconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina. From
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rises to 6,272 meters (20,577 feet), Huascaran in Peru is 6,768 meters (22,205 feet), Tocorpuri on the...from placer deposits and mining and smelting oxidized copper ores in central Peru about 1500 B.C. By the...(tucuna), which implies a rudimentary knowledge of mining and mineralogy. The mineral wealth was an integral...Uchucchacua, Peru; emeralds from Muzo, Colombia; pink fluorite and huge pyrites from Huanzala, Peru; 25-cm...pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica, Peru. The combination of awe-inspiring topography, mining, and mineral specimens
Report (issue)
= 90.22(2)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: San Genaro mine, Peru; similar to aramayoite. 2.798 (100), 3.425...99.5 (3) 36.72 41.45 21.83 100.00 (1) San Genaro mine, Peru; by electron microprobe, average of 22 analyses;...corresponding to Ag2.97(Sb2.91As0.09)Σ=3.00S6.03. (2) Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan; electron microprobe analysis,...hypogene origin coating miargyrite (Peru); in an epithermal goldsilver quartz vein cutting black mudstone (Japan)...pyrite (Peru); pyrargyrite-proustite, miargyrite (Japan). Distribution: From the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3749/canmin.50.1.101 BAUMSTARKITE FROM THE KORYU MINE, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN Arashi KITAKAZE Yamaguchi University...as aggregates of euhedral crystals in the Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan. The optical properties, chemical...(2002) based on samples from the San Genaro mine (Huancavelica department, Peru). A crystal structure study...unknown Ag-Sb-As sulfosalt mineral from the Koryu mine in Hokkaido Japan was described as “arsenian aramayoite”...system Ag 2SSb2S3-As2S3 are discussed. The Koryu mine in Hokkaido, Japan, is an epithermal gold-silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Proustite DELORES MINE, CHANARCILLO, CHILE 344 ROCKS & MINERALS I ... 3 3 3 3 3 3 Figure I. Proustite, Delores mine, Chanarcillo, Chile. Chanarcillo proustites are...most desirable for the species, and the Delores mine is the best known of the old workings there with...Banner district, Boise County; the Lava Creek dis­ trict, Butte County; the Atlanta district, Elmore...crystalline masses, was found in the early years of mining in the Silver City, Flint, and DeLamar districts
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................& A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ...........387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...and Vail, Colorado. www.MardaniFineMinerals.com Quartz Cabiche, Colombia 14.5 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS FINE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization is present in the Julcani mining district, Peru, as fracture fillings in Tertiary volcanics...are used to determinemetal ratios throughoutthe district. The changesin metal ratios are large and systematic...mineralizing solutions. In the southeast.ernpart of the district, Herminia-Lucrecia, ratios change systematicallyaway...changesin three other mineralized areas of the district indicate general domal zoning. In general,Pb/Cu...as are determinedthroughoutthe Julcanimining district, Peru, usingmetalcontentdata available' from seen'by
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ...........1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...CONVENTION 8c EXPO CENTER APRIL24-26 INESITE HALE CREEK MINE MAD RIVER ROCK, COASTAL RANGE, TRINITY CO., CALIFORNIA
Catalog/List
single xls and clusters of quartz to create striking specimens. The quartz usually has a slightly smoky...fluorites set nicely in a cluster of tour quartz xls; the !argest quartz xl measures 5 x 10 cm. Size: 7 x 7...7 x 10 cm - $200 b) A "stubby" quartz xl 4.5 x 4 x 4 cm in size "ringed" by approximately six fluorite...front of the pyramidal faces of the quartz; the fluorites cover the quartz xl completely on both sides of...Size: 5 x 7 x 6 cm - $250 c) A 3 x 4 x 8.5 cm smoky quartz xl; from it's termination to half way down the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AgTe3 S60 gold-bearing quartz vein, ca. 30 km SW of Lingbao city, Henan province, China (34°24’N, 110°31’E)...Museum of China, Yangrouhutong Street 15, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, catalogue number M13812 (cotype)...di Pozzuoli, Flegrean Volcanic Complex, Napoli Province, Campania, Italy (40°49’41”N, 14°8’30”E) Anatoly...K8(Fe3+0.67☐0.33)[Fe3+3O(SO4)6]2·14H2O Monte Arsiccio mine, Stazzema (LU), Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy (43°58’N...Sangenaroite Ag8(Sb8–xAsx)S16 (0 < x < 2) San Genaro mine, Huancavelica, Peru (13°11’30.4”S, 75°8’36.3”W) Dan Topa*
 
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