Mine detail: Chapi

Previously called 'Chapi Mine'

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Location: Arequipa, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -16.7477, -71.33292
dep_id: 10068771
mrds_id: W002021
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Producer
ore: Limonite, Malachite
alteration: Host Rock Has Been Intensely Altered.
ore_ctrl: Strongest Mineralization Adjacent To Transverse Fissures In Disseminated Deposits In Quartzites. Few Deposits Along Faults
Reporter: Goudarzi, Gus H., Page, Norman J.
tectonic: Andean Cordillera
disc_yr: 1920
References:
  • Deposit:: U.S.B.M. MINERALS YEARBOOK 1970 PERU PREPRINT
  • Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969
  • Deposit:: SIMONS, F.S., 1960, COMPILATION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 906-911.
  • Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS UNPUBLISHED REPOR
  • Production:: U.S.B.M. MINERALS YEARBOOK 1968 VOL. 4 P. 588
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