Mine detail: El Aguilar Mine

Previously called 'AguilarHamahuaca Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

-23.19752, -65.7161

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Lead, Silver
Secondary:	Copper
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Molybdenum
Ore:	Alabandite, Antimony, Argentite, Boulangerite, Bournonite, Breithauptite, Cubanite, Gold, Hematite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Molybdenite, Polybasite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Silver
Gangue:	Actinolite, Calcite, Chlorite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Pyroxene, Quartz, Rhodonite, Scapolite, Tourmaline, Vesuvianite, Wollastonite
Orebody form:	LENSE
Discovery year:	1650

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Stratabound Exhalative
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1936-
First production started:	1936

Geology

Host rock:	Padrioc Formation;;;
Host type:	Quartzite,Sandstone,Chert
Associated rock:	Aguilar Granite
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	During Mineralization: Growth Faults And Slumping In A Shallow Marine Basin. Post-Ore: Two Phases Of Gentle, Open Folding (Lord?, Mpal-Lpal?), E-W Compression And Extension (Ljur-Ecret), Intrusion With Local Doming And Fracturing (Ecret), Thrust-Faulting (Ltert), On East Limb Of A Post-Ore N-S Trending Syncline, Bounded, Deformed, And Disrupted By Post-Ore Folding, Faulting, And Intrusion
Tectonic:	Shallow-Marine Basin Of Unknown Setting
Alteration processes:	Primary Alteration Is Obscured By Post-Ore Pyroxene-Hornblende Facies Contact Metamorphism Caused By Intrusion Of Ecret Aguilar Granite

References

MRDS	W002073
DEP	10068815
Reference	{Deposit:: ANGELELLI, V., FERNANDEZ LIMA, J. C., HERRERA, A., AND ARISTARAIN, L., 1970, DESCRIPCION DEL MAPA METALOGENETICO DE LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA: DIRRECION NACIONAL DE GEOLOGIA Y MINERIA, P. 117-118 (SPANISH)}{Deposit:: SPENCER, JR., F. N., 1950, THE GEOLOGY OF THE AGUILAR LEAD-ZINC MINE, ARGENTINA: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 45, NO. 5, P. 405-433}{Deposit:: GEMMELL, J.B., ZANTOP, M., AND MEINERT, L.D., 1992, GENESIS OF THE AGUILAR ZINC-LEAD-SILVER DEPOSIT, ARGENTINA: CONTACT METASOMATIC VS SEDIMENTARY EXHALATIVE: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V. 87, P. 2085-2112.}{Deposit:: SUREDA, R.J., AND MARTIN, J.L., 1990, EL AGUILAR MINE: AN ORDOVICIAN SEDIMENT-HOSTED STRATIFORM LEAD-ZINC DEPOSIT IN THE CENTRAL ANDES, IN FONTBOYE AT AL, EDS, STRATABOUND DEPOSITS IN THE ANDES: NEW YORK, SPRINGER VERLAG, P. 161-174.}{Deposit:: SOMMI, L.V., 1956, LA MINERIA ARGENTINA Y LA INDEPENDENCIA ECONOMICA: BUENOS AIRES, EDITORIAL RAIGAL, P. 120-128.}{Deposit:: ANGELELLI, V. 1984, YACIMIENTOS METALIFEROS DE LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA: LA PLATA, COMISION DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES, V. 2, P. 476-480.}{Production:: (1,2) ANGELELLI (1984) P. 476. (3) GEMMELL AND OTHERS (1992) P. 2085; WORLD MINING (1985); ROSKILL,(1972, P. 403, 1973, P. 31); MINING ANNUAL REVIEW (1980), P. 395.}
Reporter	Page, Norman J., Davidson, Claire B., Long, Keith R.