Mine detail: Manco Kapac Mine

Previously called 'Nelly'

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Location: La Paz, Bolivia, South America
Lat / long: -17.29545, -69.20982
dep_id: 10005971
mrds_id: BL10192
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Minor mineral: Lead, Zinc, Cadmium
Trace mineral: Antimony
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Argentite, Bornite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorargyrite, Covellite, Galena, Greenockite, Miargyrite, Polybasite, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Stromeyerite, Tennantite
gangue: Chalcedony, Kaolinite
work_type: Underground
model: 77: Sn-polymetallic vein
Reporter: Long, K.R.
hrock_unit: Berenguela
hrock_type: Tuff
arock_unit: Berenguela
arock_type: Tuff
discr: Spanish Colonists
References:
  • Deposit:: SIRVAS C., FERNANDO, 1964, ESTUDIO GEOLOGICO DE LA REGION TAMBO MAURI-BERENGUELA, PROVINCIA PACAJES DE DEPARTAMENTO DE LA PAZ, REPUBLICA BOLVIANA: UNPUBLISHED TESIS DE GRADO, UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRES, MAP 1:50,000.
  • Deposit:: SCHNEIDER-SCHERBINA, A., 1962, LOS YACIMIENTOS POLIMETALICOS DE BERENGUELA: GERMAN GEOLOGICAL MISSION TO BOLIVIA REPORT 39, 54P.
  • Deposit:: FIELD INVESTIGATIONS, USGS/GEOBOL, 1990
  • Deposit:: THESIS BY SIRVAS (1964)
  • Deposit:: INVESTIGATIONS BY GERMAN GEOLOGICAL MISSION (SCHNEIDER-SCHERBINA, 1962)
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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