Mine detail: Candelaria Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-21.54894, -66.10778

Resource(M)

Primary:	Antimony, Gold
Tertiary:	Lead
Ore:	Boulangerite, Gold, Jamesonite, Stibnite
Gangue:	Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1850

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host type:	Slate,Quartzite
Associated rock:	Esmoraca Stock
Associated type:	Dacite
Structure:	On N-S Anticline.
Alteration processes:	Sericitization

References

MRDS	BL20299
DEP	10006306
Reference	{Deposit:: VARGAS, A.W., AND BALLIVIAN S., M., 1971, CANDELARIA MINE: GEOBOL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT GE-G2/451.}{Deposit:: BROWN & ROOT, INC., 1983, COMPANY REPORT.}{Deposit:: GUSTAVSON ASSOC., 1992, COMPENDIUM OF THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF BOLIVIA.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: GUSTAVSON ASSOC. (1992)}
Reporter	Calderon, Raul, Long, Keith R., Blacutt, William