Mine detail: Mangan

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-9.30409, -77.78504

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Lead, Zinc
Ore:	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Alabandite, Calcite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Sandstone,Rhyolite
Structure:	The Buena Cashma Mine Is In Folded Cretaceous Sedimentary Rocks Just Ne Of A Contact With Flat-Lying Tertiary Volcanic Rocks. The Contact Is Intruded Nw Of Buena Cashma And N Of Mangan By A Stock Of Porphyritic Andesite. The Mangan Vein Is Enclosed In Rhyolite Flows And Welded Tuff With Some Sandstone And Conglomerate.
Tectonic:	Andean Cordillera
Alteration processes:	Silicification, Propylitization, Sericitization, Kaolinization

References

MRDS	W002174
DEP	10068902
Reference	{Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK, 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 534}{Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969}{Deposit:: VELARDE, CARLOS E., 1908, LA MINERIA EN EL PERU: 365 P. LIMA, MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO, IMPRENTA LA OPINION NACIONAL, P. 64-65}{Deposit:: BODENLOS, ALFRED J., AND STRACZEK, JOHN A., 1957, BASE METAL DEPOSITS OF CORDILLERA NEGRA, DEPARTAMENTO DE ANCASH, PERU: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1040, P. 124-127.}{Deposit:: PFLUCKER, LUIS A., 1906, YACIMIENTOS DE FIERRO DE AIJAY CALLEYCANCHA: CUERPO DE ING. DE MINAS DEL PERU, BOL., NO. 36, P. 28-29}{Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS, UNPUB. REP}{Production:: F. SIMONS, 1960, UNPUB. REP.}{Reserve-Resource:: METALLOGENIC MAPS OF PERU. 1969, 1972}
Reporter	Shaffer, Glenn L., Page, Norman J.