Mine detail: Chapi

Previously called 'Chapi Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: -16.7477, -71.33292

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Ore: Limonite, Malachite
Discovery year: 1920

Production

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

Geology

Tectonic:Andean Cordillera
Alteration processes:Host Rock Has Been Intensely Altered.

References

MRDSW002021
DEP10068771
Reference{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DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969}{Deposit:: SIMONS, F.S., 1960, COMPILATION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 906-911.}{Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS UNPUBLISHED REPOR}{Production:: U.S.B.M. MINERALS YEARBOOK 1968 VOL. 4 P. 588}
ReporterGoudarzi, Gus H., Page, Norman J.