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Chalcopyrite from
Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Project
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Erazoite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Erazoite at this locality.
Goldfieldite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Goldfieldite at this locality.
Enargite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Enargite at this locality.
Bismuthinite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Bismuthinite at this locality.
Baryte1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:977948
Long-form Identifier:1:3:977948:8
GUID (UUID V4):f6759079-d706-4ae3-99b5-00993fad49a6
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
77.1km (47.9 miles) Julia mine (Julia-Reventon Cu deposit), Julia District, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
77.1km (47.9 miles) El Peñón Mine, Escondida, Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile Jochen Schlüter, Thomas Malcherek...found in 2012 in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco ore deposit, Northern Chile. Erazoite occurs as tiny...Key words: erazoite, El Guanaco gold deposit, copper tin sulphide, Taltal, Chile Introduction The new...by Arturo Molina in 2012 in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco ore deposit (25° 06′ 22″ S 69° 32′ 10″...100 km ENE of Taltal, 180 km ESE of Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The El Guanaco gold mineralization
Report (issue)
98(7)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: El Guanaco mine, northern Chile. 8.420 (100), 4.210 (64), 4.322 (21)...19 15.80 36.05 16.96 100.00 (1) El Guanaco mine, northern Chile; average electron microprobe analysis...epithermal deposit hosted by felsic rocks (El Guanaco mine), weathered in an arid and Mg-rich environment...brochantite, quartz, enargite (Chile); quartz, dolomite, chalcopyrite, chromite, cuprite, malachite,...Distribution: From the El Guanaco mine, ~93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region, northern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenate mineral species from the El Guanaco Mine, near Taltal, Chile: Description and crystal structure...from the El Guanaco Mine, around 93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region...Region, Northern Chile. The mineral occurs as blue to pale blue prismatic to acicular crystals up to 0.7 mm...Morocco, in association with quartz, dolomite, chalcopyrite, chromite, cuprite, malachite and agardite-(Ce)...mineral, crystal structure, akrochordite, El Guanaco Mine, Chile, Taghouni, Morocco. Introduction In 1997
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CAPRICORNIO Au-Ag EPITHERMAL VEIN SYSTEM, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE GIUSEPPE ARFȧ AND MARIA BONI* Dipartimento...Paleocene–Eocene metallogenic belt, 60 km ENE of Antofagasta in the physiographic Central Depression, between...metal sulfide minerals including galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. The hypogene mineralization...epithermal, Au-Ag, supergene Au-Ag, aridity, gold, Antofagasta Region, Central Depression. § Corresponding...CANADIAN MINERALOGIST INTRODUCTION The Antofagasta region in northern Chile hosts many of the world’s significant
Report (issue)
synthetic X-ray Powder Pattern: Chilena mine, Antofagasta Province, Chile. 3.022 (100), 1.877 (47), 1.667 (13)...20.99 34.04 100.00 (1) Chilena mine, Antofagasta Province, Chile; average of 36 electron microprobe...Barite alunite, jarosite, olivenite, scorodite, chalcopyrite, Sb- and Se-rich bismuthinite, goldfieldite...Chilena mine, Soledad property, El Guanaco gold deposit, Atacama desert, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Name:...crystallography, and metallurgy at Copiapo University, Chile, and was the first director of the Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Koashva open pit of the Vostochnyi apatite mine, Khibiny, with aegirine, microcline, lamprophyllite...copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie–...covellite, was discovered at in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco Au deposit (25°06′22″S 69°32′10″W), in...Atacama desert ~100 km ENE of Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The El Guanaco is an epithermal deposit... Ore minerals mostly represented by pyrite, chalcopyrite, enargite, and gold. Erazoite is enclosed in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUPERGENE WEATHERING IN THE EL PEÑÓN DISTRICT, NORTHERN CHILE IAN WARREN,† Yamana Gold, 9670 Gateway Drive, Suite...Peñón epithermal gold-silver deposit, Region II, Chile, comprises multiple epithermal veins, which contain...in the Paleocene metallogenic belt of northern Chile. Quartz-adularia-carbonate veins are hosted in Paleocene...Paleocene and early Eocene magmatic arc of northern Chile. Measured, indicated, and inferred resources for...intersected by drill holes and in the underground mine workings, is 59.2 ± 1.6 Ma based on whole-rock K/Ar
Report (issue)
PROSPECTS OF THE I, H, IE, IV, AND V REGIONS, NORTHERN CHILE compiled by William C. Williams Open-File Report...complement to my dissertation work in northern Chile under the auspices of Dr. John Guilbert at the University...prospects in the I, n, IE, IV, and V Regions of Chile (Figure 1). Over 3000 sites were compiled from published...Geologia y Yacimientos Metaliferos de la Region de Antofagasta: Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Boletin...well as descriptions of the major mines throughout Chile with insights as to their genesis. Finally, Frutos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Conichalcite...Figure 2. Conichalcite with azurite from the Clara mine, OberTsumeb conichalcite is fibrous spherical or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, i9i 9 No. I THE VEINS OF CHAi{IARCILLO, CHILE.• W. L. W•IT•-a•-.•D. CONTENTS. PATE. Introduction......................... i The Region of North Chile ........................................... The...preciousmetals were c•iscovered.Gold was foundat Guanaco,a't Cerro Blancoand in many other localities; silver...maximum exploitation, from about •86o to x88o, Chile enjoyeda period of mining prosperitylong to be remembered...the bibliography. THE VEINS OF CHAI•ARCILLO, CHILE. of the district were flooded. A few tentative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AntofagastaRegion,Chile FRANCISCO CAMUS Caminodel Valle Alto 1327, LosDominicos-Las Condes,Santiago,Chile AND MILKA...ALEXANDRA SKEWES Casilla 970, CorreoCentral,Santiago,Chile Abstract The Faride epithermalsilver-golddepositbelongsto... which consists of specularhematite,pyrite, chalcopyrite,galena,sphalerite,and copper-silversulfosalts...goldrich and consists of quartz-hematite-pyrite-chalcopyrite, andthe laterstage(II) issilverrichandconsists...sts primarilyof barite-galena-sphalerite-chalcopyrite andAg sulfosalts. Hydrothermalalterationisweaklydeveloped
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOLUTIONS IN THE SYSTEMS Cu-As-S. MINA EL GUANACO, TALTAL, CHILE A. H. Cr,lnr, Department oJGeological,...Cu-As-S solid solutions in the EI Guanaco deposit, northern Chile. The solid solutions are compositionally...supergeneenrichment of pyrite and chalcopyrite in copper deposits of northern Chile have confirmed the existenceof...extensivesolid solutions falling within the chalcopyrite-bornite and bornite-digenite regions of the...supergenedjurleite in the El Guanaco gold-copper deposit, 100 km ENE of Taltal, Chile. One of us (A.M.) is engagedin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUPERGENE OXIDATION, COPIAPo MINING DISTRICT, NORTHERN CHILE R. H. Snr.rroE, Deportnlentof Geology,LlniuersityCollege...deposits of the Copiap6 mining district of northern Chile copper and copper-iron sulfides persist as early...rn the oxidation zones of this area, hlpogene chalcopyrite has been converted to normal covellite; hyrogene...hyrogene bornite to "anomalous bornite", idaite, chalcopyrite, and normal covellite; supergene djurleite a...deposits in the Copiap6 mining district of northern Chile (Sillitoe, 1969a), in which the relations between
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 86, 1991, pp. 1187-1205 Gold Metallogeny of Chile RICHARD an Introduction H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill...poorlymineralized. Paucityof golddepositsin the coastalzoneof Chile, concentration of highsulfidationand porphyry-typedepositsin...copper and silver enrichmentin northernand central Chile which took place during the Oligoceneand early Mioceneand...CHILEhasbeena modestgoldproducerfor the last central Chile (24o-37 ø S; Flores, 1942; Ruiz et al., fivecenturies...by-product of coppermining.The 18 principal tral Chile, commonlyat altitudescloseto or greater depositsincludedin
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (issue)
even tho ugh on a small scale. The Storforshei iron mine in the Dunderlandsdalen is still in operation, working...sold as souvenir in a few places. The Mofje llet Mine, a once considerable but now depleted ase metal...locality is the El Guanaco Mine, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta Province. Chile. It forms beautiful...The cinnabar is associated with sphalerite. chalcopyrite, pyrite, galena, and quartz crystals. The pyrargyrite...Richterveld pegmatite, Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. This amazing 3 inch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Santiago,Chile RICARDO BORIC, CompaniaMineraDisputadade Las Condes,Pedrode Valdivia291, Santiago,Chile MILKA...ALEXANDRA SKEWES, Casilla 970, Correo Central, Santiago,Chile JUANCARLOSCASTELLI, EmpresaNacionalde Petroleo-Magallanes...Petroleo-Magallanes, loseNogueira1101,PuntaArenas,Chile ENRIQUE REICHHARD, AND ANDRESMESTRE CompaniaMineraEl...CompaniaMineraEl Bronce,Carmencita240, Santiago,Chile Abstract The E1Bronceepithermalveinsystem,locatedin the westernfoothillsof...major groupsof veinsare recognized:the El Bronce-Guanaco-La Olla-SanLorenzogrouplocated north of the E1BronceCreek
Journal (issue)
Kladno on the dumps of a long time closed uranium mine at Slavkovicc, western Moravia, Czech Republic....lavendulan from Santa Catalina Mine. Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The lavendulan is not present...sampleite in Chile; first reported in Mineral News, March, 1997 issue from the El Guanaco gold mine near Taltal...Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Wolscndorlite was found on a very old specimen (late Continued on...size, associated species), the location (county, mine or prospect. U.S.G.S. quadrangle, Township. Range
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold deposit, El Sauce district, central-northern Chile J. Carrillo-Ros ua1;2;3 , S. Morales-Ruano1 , D...Spain 2 Dpto. de Geologı́a, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 3 Isotope Geosciences Unit, SUERC, East...at La Serena ( 29 470 S Lat., 70 430 W Long., Chile). Quartz-sulfide veins of economic potential are...main ore minerals in the deposit are pyrite, chalcopyrite  fahlore (As=(As þ Sb): 0.06–0.98), with electrum...Cretaceous age in the Precordillera of central-north Chile, at  29 470 Lat. S 70 430 W Long. (Fig. 1). We
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Av. Vitacura 5250, Of. 404 Vitacura, Santiago, Chile Abstract The Cerro Bayo low sulfidation epithermal...tip of the Deseado Massif epithermal silver-gold province. Mineralization is hosted in the mainly rhyolitic...mineralization in the Patagonian Andes of southern Chile. The protracted history of epithermal processes...71°50'W in Chile, near the international border with Argentina and 14 km west of the town of Chile †Corresponding... the mine operations were suspended in November 2000. A drilling program in 2000, prior to mine suspension
Journal (issue)
found on a specimen from Uchucchagua Mine, near Oyon, Oyon Province. Lima Department. Peru. A new mineral...Socrates Mine. Sonoma County. Cahfom1a. Both are new minerals for this famous mercury mine. The mineral...obtained froi:n Lloyd Twaides from the Good Hope Mine, near 1-!edley,_S_1milkameen District, BC. Canada...labelled as hedleyne. This 1s a new mineral for this mine and Canada and only the second locality world-wide...from Veta Negra Mine. Pampa Larga Min ing District, Tierra Amarilla, Atacama Province. Chile labelled as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pasero (2006) Allanite-(La) from Buca della Vena mine, Apuan Alps, Italy, an epidote-group mineral. Can...limestone in the Castello zone of the Buca della Vena mine, near Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. It occurs...at the Suishoyama mine, Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The Suishoyama mine worked several NYF-type...Abundancia Mine, Chile. Can. Mineral., 44, 523–531. Lemanskiite occurs intergrown with lammerite in mine dump...material from the abandoned Abundancia gold mine, El Guanaco mining district, south of Cerro La Estrella
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universidad de Chile. Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile. (2) Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza...Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. (3) College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University...known, allowing better criteria for decisions on mine concession acquisitions, plan geophysical and geochemical... Quellaveco and Toquepala, whereas in northern Chile, the main deposits are Mocha, Cerro Colorado, Spence...130 km in southern Peru to 30-50 km in northern Chile, and includes mainly porphyry Cu deposits, with
Book
Cretaceous-Early Tertiary and Metallogenic Scheme of Northern Chile, Between 20· and 26· S T. Bogdanic C.I S. Espinoza...Cretaceous geology and metallogenesis in the north of Chile. This is followed by a paper on Cretaceous evolution...the Cretaceous evolution of central Argentina and Chile in the present volume, due to force of circumstances...northern South America (Le., true continental slope province), little can be ascertained because of the obscuring...northern South American Cretaceous passive margin province. More westerly parts of Colombia, such as the
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
 
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