Mine detail: La Plata

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Location:	Pichincha, Ecuador, South America
Lat / long:	-0.35978, -78.94701
dep_id:	10063755
mrds_id:	TC37708
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Copper, Silver, Gold
Minor mineral:	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Stratiform
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite
Reporter:	Miller, Charles P., Lopez, Tony, Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit:	Macuchi Formation
hrock_type:	Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
References:	Deposit:: GOOSSENS, P.J., 1972, METALLOGENY IN ECUADORIAN ANDES: ECON. GEOL., VOL. 67, P. 458-468. Deposit:: INEMIN INSTITUTO ECUATORIANO MINERALIA, 1987, MAPA CATASTRAL MINERO ECUATORIO. Deposit:: MINISTERIO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y ENERGETICOS, 1982, MAPA GEOLOGICO NACIONAL DE LA REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR, SCALE 1:1,000,000. Deposit:: GOOSSENS, P.J., FOZZARD, P.M., AND MOSQUERA, C.C., 1969, MINERAL INDEX MAP REPUBLIC OF EQUADOR: NACIONAL DE GEOLOGIA Y MINERA, MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIAS Y COMERCIO, QUITO, EQUADOR, SCALE 1:1,000,000. Deposit:: PALADINES, P.A., SANMARTIN, D.H., AND SUAREZ, L.H., 1980, MAPA METALOGENICO DE LA REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR: MINISTERIO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y ENERGETICOS, SCALE 1:1,000,000. Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, 1982, PROFILE ON ECUADOR, VOL. 298, NO. 7657, P. 367-368. Deposit:: STOLL, W.C., 1962, NOTES ON THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF ECUADOR, ECON. GEOL., VOL. 57(5), P. 799-808. Deposit:: PUIG, C.A., 1984, ECUADOR LOOKING TO MINING INCOME TO SUPPLEMENT OIL REVENUES, ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 185, P. 85, 89, 92. Deposit:: WORLD MINING, DEC. 1983, P. 190. Other Database:: CIMRI Production:: WORLD MINING (1983).