| Location: | Arequipa, Peru, South America |
| Lat / long: | -15.09775, -71.71627 |
| dep_id: | 10068901 |
| mrds_id: | W002173 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Copper, Zinc, Lead |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Unknown |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Jasper, Quartz |
| ore_ctrl: | The Veins In General Contain Banded Or Drusy Quartz With Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Galena, Polybasite, And Probably Other Silver Sulfosalts, And Gold. High Grade Vein Material Is Often Brecciated And Contains Mainly White Quartz, Whereas Lower Grade Ore May Have Jasper Or Amethystine Quartz With Stringers Of Pyrite And Sphalerite. |
| Reporter: | Shaffer, Glenn L., Page, Norman J. |
| hrock_type: | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) |
| Structure: | Mine Area Underlain By Andesitic Lavas And Pyroclastic Rocks That Dip 10 Deg-40 Deg Sw. Sandstone And Shale Of Mesozoic Age Are Reported. These Rocks Are Cut By An Extensive Fault-Vein System, Striking N60w, Dipping Steeply Sw. The Outcrop Patterns Of Veins Suggest That The Vein Fissures May Have Originated As Tension Fractures Between Two Principal Nw Striking Shear Zones, Carmen-Corona-Santa Ursula To The Ne And Potosi Ramal Structure To The Sw. |
| tectonic: | Andean Cordillera |
| Year first produced: | 1940 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK, 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 517
- Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969
- Deposit:: NOBLE, D.C. AND VIDAL, C.E., 1994, GOLD IN PERU: SEG NEWLETTER, APRIL 1994, NO. 17, P. 1, 6-13.
- Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS, UNPUB. REP
- Other Database:: CIMRI
- Production:: F. SIMONS, 1960, UNPUB. REP.
- Reserve-Resource:: METALLOGENIC MAPS OF PERU. 1969, 1972
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