Mine detail: La Paccha

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Location: La Libertad, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -8.50162, -77.40808
dep_id: 10064303
mrds_id: TC38629
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
gangue: Quartz, Sericite
alteration: Chloritic, Sericitic
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: Pataz Batholith
hrock_type: Diorite
References:
  • Deposit:: SIMONS, F., 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT.
  • Deposit:: SCHREIBER, D.W., FONTBOTE, L., AND LOCHMAN, D., 1990, GEOLOGIC SETTING, PARAGENESIS, AND PHYSIOCHEMISTRY OF GOLD-QUARTZ VEINS HOSTED BY PLUTONIC ROCKS IN THE PATAZ REGION: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 85, P. 1328-1347.
  • Deposit:: NOBLE, D.C. AND VIDAL, C.E., 1994, GOLD IN PERU: SEG NEWSLETTER, APRIL 1994, NO 17, P. 1, 6-13.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Reserve-Resource:: SIMONS (1960).
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