Mine detail: Rio Pallanga Lead-Zinc Deposit No. 1

Previously called 'Rio Pallanga and Alpamara Mines'

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Location

Lat / long:

-11.1479, -76.4664

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver
Secondary:	Cadmium, Antimony
Ore:	Galena, Orpiment, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Discovery year:	1677

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1939 - PRESENT
First production started:	1939

Geology

Host rock:	Limestone;Clastic (Breccia) Sediments Interbedded With Sandstone & Conglomerate;Red Siltstone, Conglomerate & Marly Limestone;Tuff & Tuff Breccia
Host type:	Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Associated rock:	Diorite Porphyry Intrusive;Carolina Stock, Gray Diorite Porphyry
Associated type:	Plutonic Rock
Structure:	Series Of Northwesterly Trending Folds Cut By Several Thrust Faults That Strike Parallel To The Axis Of Folds And Dip West, The Carolina Stock Lies Near The Axis Of A Large Anticline And Is Elongated Along The Fold, Suggesting Control Of Emplacement By The Fold. The Carolina Stock Is Bounded Both On The East And West By Vertical Faults Now Occupied By Quartz Veins
Tectonic:	Andean Cordillera
Alteration processes:	Chloritization

References

MRDS	W002032
DEP	10068782
Reference	{Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 196}{Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS UNPUBLISHED REPOR}{Production:: UNPUBLISHED REPORT - FRANK SIMONS}
Reporter	Goudarzi, Gus H. (Theune, C. T.)