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Chalcopyrite from
Portovelo, Portovelo Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador


Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Portovelo, Portovelo Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:969364
Long-form Identifier:1:3:969364:7
GUID (UUID V4):46bc3a7c-e4b4-4e79-a492-9960dd900a57
Localities for Chalcopyrite in this Region
Mining concession Barbasco 1A, Portovelo, Portovelo Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
2.0km (1.3 miles) ⓘMining concession Barbasco 1A, Portovelo, Portovelo Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
3.3km (2.0 miles) ⓘBira, Zaruma, Zaruma Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
4.7km (2.9 miles) ⓘZaruma deposit, Zaruma Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
9.3km (5.8 miles) ⓘPortovelo Mine (Porto Velo Mine), Zaruma Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
35.3km (22.0 miles) ⓘFierro Urcu Au-Cu deposit, Loja Province, Ecuador
46.1km (28.7 miles) ⓘTocadulomo mine, Birón, Santa Rosa Canton, El Oro Province, Ecuador
53.6km (33.3 miles) ⓘRio Playas Cu deposit, Loja Province, Ecuador
54.7km (34.0 miles) ⓘEl Empalme, Sozoranga Canton, Loja Province, Ecuador
69.4km (43.1 miles) ⓘBella Rica prospect, Bella Rica mining district, Camilo Ponce Enríquez Canton, Azuay Province, Ecuador
74.7km (46.4 miles) ⓘGaby-Papa Grande Cu-Au deposit, Camilo Ponce Enríquez Canton, Azuay Province, Ecuador
References
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Km. 30.5 Vía Perimetral, 09-01-5863 Guayaquil, Ecuador; emnisanc@espol.edu.ec Facultad de Ingeniería Ciencias...Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, 09-01-5863 Guayaquil, Ecuador Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad...Principal La Libertad—Santa Elena, 240204 La Libertad, Ecuador; grisherrera@upse.edu.ec Departamento de Ingeniería...on the existing routes of the Zaruma-Portovelo region (Ecuador), together with a global assessment of... structures and other elements. Currently, in Ecuador, there is no legal recognition for a declaration
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2021 Museo MineralĂłgico Magner Turner, Portovelo 071150, Ecuador; magnerturnersavage@yahoo.com (M.T.-C...Galindo Km 30.5 VĂ­a Perimetral, Guayaquil 9015863, Ecuador Facultad de IngenierĂ­a en Ciencias de la Tierra...Galindo Km 30.5 VĂ­a Perimetral, Guayaquil 9015863, Ecuador Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y MatemĂĄticas, Geo-recursos...Guayaquil 9015863, Ecuador; fmorante@espol.edu.ec Independent Consultor, Zaruma 071350, Ecuador; kgzambra@espol...Abstract: The Zaruma-Portovelo mining district in Ecuador, and in particular, Portovelo City, is home to
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porphyry Cu and porphyry-related mineral deposits in Ecuador revealed by Re-Os, 40Ar/39Ar, and U-Pb geochronology...mineral deposits in southern, central, and northern Ecuador were dated by means of molybdenite Re-Os, biotite...rocks of a similar age, porphyry Cu deposits in Ecuador are frequently spatially associated with deeper-seated...B. Beate Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador e-mail: bbeate@uio.satnet.net Present Address:...majority of Miocene deposits occurs in southern Ecuador where areally extensive, post-mineralization (late
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Springer-Verlag 1996 Portovelo: a volcanic-hosted epithermal vein-system in Ecuador, South America F. Van... Quito, Ecuador '~Belgian TechnicalAssistance,c/o BelgianEmbassy,Casilla 532, Quito, Ecuador s Vrije...November 1995 Abstract. The Portovelo epithermal vein-system in southwestern Ecuador has produced more than...with magmatic water. The Portovelo deposit is located in southwest Ecuador (Fig. 1), about 100km from...The only published geological descriptions of Portovelo are by Billingsley (1926) and Van Thournout et
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Humedo porphyry-related gold deposit, southern Ecuador: Evidence from the boron isotope and chemical variations...Humedo porphyry-related gold deposit, southern Ecuador: Evidence from the boron isotope and chemical variations...porphyry 4 rocks in the Cangrejos–Zaruma district, Ecuador, northern Andes. The Humedo deposit, 5 with a...porphyry–epithermal system; 30 Humedo gold deposit; Ecuador 2 31 1. Introduction 32 Porphyry systems...Andes is the largest gold producing 46 region in Ecuador and hosts several porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal
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depositsand metalliferousindicationsof the Republicof Ecuador. The principal classesof metallic mineral depositsare:...assemblages; letter positionis usedto identify positsof Ecuador (Wolf, 1892; Stoll, 1962; Goos- the principal minerals...program in are smaller inserts of Ecuador showingthe tectonic Ecuador, and one of the outcomesof this work...Figure 1, map of Ecuador,is an adaptationof lished1:500,000geological map of Ecuador(Goos- a metallogenic...metallogenic the minerals index map of Ecuador (Goossens, sensand Pico, 1969). On this map,metallicmineral occurrences
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11 The metamorphic belts of Ecuador The metamorphic belts of Ecuador CQVer photograph Cerro Hermoso... OVERSEAS MEMOIR 11 The metamorphic belts of Ecuador M Litherland,] A Aspden and RAJemielita Keyworth...andjf.MIEl,ITA, RA. )994. The metamorphic belts of Ecuador. Overseas Memofr of the British Geologi-cal Survey...7 Andean metallogenesis 9 Metamorphic rocks of Ecuador l0 Stratigraphical nomenclature 10 Metamorphic...and skarns 33 Alao terrane 36 Alao-Paute unit 36 El Pan unit 38 Maguazo unit 39 Guamote terrane ‱ 41
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Image Analysis: Application to Zaruma-Portovelo Deposit (Ecuador) Edgar Berrezueta 1, *, Berta Ordóñez-Casado...Consultor-Auditor Minero Freelance, Piñas 070401, Ecuador; wilsonbonilla2@yahoo.com.ar Universidad de Guayaquil...s/n y Av. Juan Tanca Marengo, Guayaquil 090612, Ecuador; richyband@hotmail.com Universidad Politécnica...Guayaquil 090903, Ecuador; pcarrion@espol.edu.ec Compañía Minera PL S.A., Zaruma 070301,Ecuador; sipuglla1993@gmail...sections from Zaruma-Portovelo intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposit (Ecuador) using multispectral
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Mnogovershinnoe, Russia Porgera, Papua New Guinea PortoveloZaruma, Ecuador Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic Sergeevskoe...Armenia; and the PortoveloZaruma gold–silver deposit in the South American Cordillera, Ecuador (Fig. 3). Most...VPB (Dukat, Ser geevskoe, Mnogovershinnoe, and PortoveloZaru ma); and islandarc VPB (Pueblo Viejo, Ladolam...Mnogovershinnoe, Pueblo Viejo, Ladolam, Zod, Porgera, and PortoveloZaruma); in addition, there are deposits of combined...Kochbulak, Sergeevskoe, Mnogovershin noe, and Portovelo Zaruma), and silver types (Kani mansur and Dukat)
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arc magmatism and associated mineralization in Ecuador Received: 28 January 2003 / Accepted: 31 August...Abstract Most of the economic ore deposits of Ecuador are porphyry-Cu and epithermal style gold deposits...signatures, of continental arc magmatic rocks of Ecuador of Eocene to Late Miocene (50–9 Ma, ELM) and Late...Escuela Politécnica Nacional, AP 17–01–2759, Quito, Ecuador Present address: M. Chiaradia Centre for Geochemical...geochemical signatures of Tertiary magmatic rocks of Ecuador from the ELM- to the LMR-type coincides chronologically
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reconnaissance of the Cordillera Occidental of Ecuador: economic and environmental applications T. Martin...GeoloÂgico, Minero, MetaluÂrgica (CODIGEM), Quito, Ecuador b Received 10 November 1998; accepted 24 May...reconnaissance survey of the Cordillera Occidental of Ecuador was initiated in 1995 as a sub-component of a wider...Control Technical Assistance Project (PRODEMINCA) in Ecuador. The 36,000 km2 survey area encompasses oceanic...Cordillera Occidental (Western Cordillera) of Ecuador was initiated in 1995 as a sub-component of a national
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Canada; Kafan, Armenia; Aktogai, Kazakhstan; and El Teniente, Chile. Tour Corresponding author: I.A...where this relationship is not evident (PortoveloZaruma, Ecuador; Comstock, the United States; Fresnillo...accompanied by mag netite–hematite, pyrite–chalcopyrite, and pyrite veinlets and impregnations develop...later ankerite–basemetal assemblage consists of chalcopyrite, fahlores, galena, sphalerite, tellurides of...propylitized porphyry cut by chlorite–pyrite–chalcopyrite–quartz veinlet and cemented with quartz–chlorite
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SW72BP CARLOS PUIG, * Armenonic delEcuador,Ouito,Ecuador BARUCH SPIRO, NaturalErwironment Research Cou...mineralization at SanBartolom&in the easternAndesof Ecuador,is one of a seriesof mineraloccurrences whichmakesup...ing catalogof prospective mineraloccurrences in Ecuador, 1900;Herrerraand it wasGoossens (1969and1972)...summaryof Ecuadorianmetallogeny. The accompanying in Ecuador (Mulshaw and Puig, 1994). metallogenic mapwassubsequently...town and the Oeashuieo sector, farther to the Ecuador. 0361-0128/97/1913/210-1956.00 210 E?IZONAL
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treating pyrrhotite [22]. In the Zaruma-Portovelo region (Ecuador), ERT has been applied to study the proposed...that mainly consists of sulfides with galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite predominating, accompanied...Contreras, F.; Dueñas, J. La MinerĂ­a y la Metalurgia en el Alto Guadalquivir: Desde sus OrĂ­genes Hasta Nuestros...artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Zaruma-Portovelo, Ecuador. J. Appl. Geophys. 2015, 113, 103–113. [CrossRef]
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Alteration Pattern of Chaucha Porphyry Copper, Ecuador P. J. GOOSSENS Houghton, Michigan 49931, U.S.A...mineralization was discovered by the U.N. at Chaucha, Ecuador (see MULLER-KA~LE1972), as a result of a geochemical...Please see Fig. 1 and the Mineral Index Map of Ecuador (GoossENS 1969a) for the general setting of the...COLOMBIA (~'",._.... 0 (" ~'\ ‱Ouito c~ "-~ ] ECUADOR ".. r---~. /-PERU 'J 0 I ""~ 250 500km I I...Reconnaissance map of the region around Chaucha, Ecuador (modified after GOOSSENS and PlCo 1969). The coastal
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deposits are the Calpa, Ishihuinca, Ocoña, Sol de Oro, Los Incas and San Juan de Churunga [41]. Chåparra...pyrite being the most abundant, followed by chalcopyrite. Other sulfides in significant amounts are sphalerite...inclusions of other sulfides, manly galena and chalcopyrite, can be present. Microprobe analyses of pyrite...pyrite with inclusions of native gold and chalcopyrite; chalcopyrite crystals are being replaced by covellite...Electrum in a pyrite fracture. Py, pyrite; Cp, chalcopyrite; Cov, covellite; Sp, sphalerite. Table 2. Microprobe
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Processes. Case Study: Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ecuador Santiago D. Salas 1, * , Yris GonzĂĄlez 1 , Pamela...Processes. Case Study: Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ecuador. Minerals 2021, 11, 534. https://doi.org/ Escuela...VĂ­a Perimetral, Guayaquil P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Ecuador; ykgonzal@espol.edu.ec (Y.G.); pcango@espol.edu...VĂ­a Perimetral, Guayaquil P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Ecuador; gepena@espol.edu.ec Correspondence: sdsalas@espol...mining case study located at Ponce Enriquez, Azuay, Ecuador. The hydrometallurgical systems consider the use
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Nambija Au-skarn and Pangui porphyry Cu deposits, Ecuador: implications for the Jurassic metallogenic belt...southeastern Ecuador. Nambija has been one of the main gold-producing centers of Ecuador since the 1980s...geology of the Subandean zone in southeastern Ecuador is dominated by the I-type, subduction-related...starts in Colombia at 3° N, extends down to 5° S in Ecuador. It also adds a new mineralization style (Au-skarn)...Keywords U–Pb . Re–Os . Ar–Ar . Geochronology . Ecuador . Nambija . Pangui . Skarn . Porphyry Cu . Gold
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Jurassic Nambija gold skarn deposits (southeastern Ecuador) Jean Vallance & Lluís Fontboté & Massimo Chiaradia...Piuntza unit in the sub-Andean zone of southeastern Ecuador. The skarns consist dominantly of granditic garnet...fluids . Oxygen isotope . Chlorite . Nambija . Ecuador Introduction Skarns are an important source of...district is one of the main gold producers of Ecuador (see Chiaradia et al. 2009) and is economically...located in the sub-Andean zone of southeastern Ecuador, 40 km west of the Peruvian border (Fig. 1). The
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in this paragenesis are galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite, with quartz, ankerite, and calcite...Reconstructing the formation of a costal aquifer in Nampula province, Mozambique, from ERT and IP methods for water...artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Zaruma-Portovelo, Ecuador. J. Appl. Geophys. 2015, 113, 103–113. [CrossRef]
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conducted in North Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Portovelo (Ecuador), whereby high Au extractions of 93.6% (mill...Indonesia and 94% (d80 = 150 ”m, 5 g/L NaCN) in Ecuador. The overall dissolution reaction is given in Equation...copper and iron such as pyrite, arsenopyrite, and chalcopyrite, which have been shown to be present in these
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Thermal waters USA IDRIS Apartment 18, 61 Gesr El Suez Roxy-Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt Mining Geology...potential is tenorite, followed by cuprite and chalcopyrite at decreasing redox potential. Tenorite and...nations, was extended to Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador. This paper summarizes the results of these studies...Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Brazil and Ecuador) are humid tropical, those in Zimbabwe experience...Enriquez Adit Mesothermal lodes Nambija Adit Portovelo Adit Skarn and post-skarn epithermal (Au) Passagem
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Central Provinces respectively ; in the Eastern Province, instead of one large plantation, smaller ones...at two centres, viz. Appolonia in the Western Province of the Colony, and Northern Ashanti. The rice...the mean height above sea-level of the Buganda Province, where most of the rubber is grovvn, is just under...deposit, together with some smaller ones in the same province, produces about 90 per cent. of China's total...mining and smelting are used, Kochui in Yunnan province has produced annually between 7,000 ‱ and 8,000
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horse are directed more strongly outward than in EL. laurentius. The fossettes of the latter are markedly...collected along the Rio Culebra above Santa Isabel, Province of Col6én, Panama, near sea level, Aug. 10, 1911...collected along the Rio Culebra above Santa Isabel, Province of Col6n, Panama, near sea level, Aug. 10, 1911...Herbarium, no. 678998, collected along the Rio Fat6, Province of Colén, Panama, near sea level, July, 1911,...not reported previously north of the Andes of Ecuador. Specimens were collected by Prof. Juvenal Valerio
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oe sme ene ae 229 Reon ee 249 tone) 259 eee tae el fire toate eysvcstrinsiaspenesiarenoc Low-Sulfidation...However, later Eger became the seat of a new Turkish province (vilayet), and many moslems settled here. From...exploration successes since the late 1970s, e.g., El Indio (Chile), Hishikari (Japan), Ladolam (Papua...electrum, gold, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena (arsenopyrite) Pyrite, enargite, chalcopyrite, tennantite...a common constituent of eruptions, for example at El Chichén, Mexico, and Mount Pinatubo. Exploration
 
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