| Lat / long: | -23.19752, -65.7161 |
| 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 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Stratabound Exhalative |
| Production size: | Large |
| Development status: | Producer |
| Production years: | 1936- |
| First production started: | 1936 |
| 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 |
| 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. |