Mine detail: Belen

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Location: Azuay, Ecuador, South America
Lat / long: -3.41491, -79.0498
dep_id: 10023499
mrds_id: I000492
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Kaolin
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Residual
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Halloysite
gangue: Cristobalite, Mica, Quartz
alteration: Kaolinisation
ore_ctrl: Weathering
Reporter: Orris, Greta J., Lopez, Tony
hrock_unit: Tarqui Formation
hrock_type: Tuff
References:
  • Deposit:: MUFF, ROLF, AND FIEDERLING-KAPTEINAT, HANS-GEORG, 1988, ECUADO* CERAMIC RAW MATERIAL--DEPOSITS, PRODUCTS, FUTURE ASPECTS: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 253, P. 55-63.
  • Deposit:: MUFF, ROLF, 1990, ALTERATION OF ANDESITIC ROCKS TO KAOLIN IN THE ECUADORIAN ANDES: GEOCHEMICAL, STATISTICAL AND MINERALOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS: GEOLOGISCHES JAHRBUCH, REIHE D, V. 96, P. 3-23.
  • Deposit:: INEMIN INSTITUTO ECUATORIANO MINERALIA, 1987, MAPA CATASTRAL MINERO ECUATORIANO.
  • Deposit:: ROBERTSON, A., 1992, THE MINING JOURNAL ATLAS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MINERAL INDUSTRY, MINING JOURNAL BOOKS LTD, LONDON, 161 P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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