Mine detail: Lipe?a Mine

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Location: Potosi, Bolivia, South America
Lat / long: -21.73116, -66.45334
dep_id: 10005936
mrds_id: BL10143
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Silver
Trace mineral: Zinc, Copper, Bismuth, Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Bismuthinite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
gangue: Barite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz, Specularite
model: 77: Sn-polymetallic vein
alteration: Silicification, Sericitization. Silicification Grades Out Into Mixed Silicification, Argillization And Propylitization.
ore_ctrl: Fractures
Reporter: Long, K.R.; Camacho, E.
hrock_type: Rhyolite,Dacite
arock_type: Rhyolite,Dacite
discr: Spanish Colonists
References:
  • Deposit:: SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA, 1971, MINA LIPE%A: PROYECTO LIPEZ-COMIBOL-1970 INFORME GE-07, 15P.
  • Deposit:: MEDINA C., ALFONSO, AND IBA%EZ V., VICTOR, 1988, CARACTERISTICAS GEOLOGICAS Y EVALUACION DEL POTENCIAL MINERAL DEL YACIMIENTO DE METALES PRECIOSOS DE LIPE%A-LA MOZA Y BARRAHUAYCO, POTOSI-BOLIVIA: PROGRAMA DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS PARA EL DESAROLLO, PROYECTO BOL/87/012, INFORME, 24 P., MAP 1:10,000.
  • Deposit:: EXPLORATION WORK BY EMPRESA LIPEZ MINING IN 1967
  • Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS BY UNDP (1988)
  • Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS BY GEOBOL (1971)
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Reserve-Resource:: MEDINA AND IBA%EZ (1988)
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