Mine detail: Aguilar Mine

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Location: Potosi, Bolivia, South America
Lat / long: -21.64894, -67.15058
dep_id: 10005881
mrds_id: BL10058
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratabound
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Malachite
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
work_type: Underground
model: 197: Sediment-hosted Cu
ore_ctrl: Preferred Bed Under Impermeable Shale Horizon
Reporter: Long, Keith R.
hrock_unit: Quehua Inferior
hrock_type: Sandstone
Structure: Aguilar Anticline
Year first produced: 1967
disc_yr: 1967
discr: Peasant Miner
References:
  • Deposit:: SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA, 1971, MINA AGUILAR: PROYECTO COMIBOL-LIPEZ-70 INFORME GE-30, 14P., MAPS 1:2,000; 1:500
  • Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS BY GEOBOL (1971)
  • Deposit:: VISITED BY GEOBOL/USGS PERSONNEL 1990
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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