Mine detail: Rescate Copper Belt 22

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-16.56437, -71.4996

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc, Lead
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Pyrite, Siderite, Tourmaline
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR
Discovery year:	1927

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1927

Geology

Host type:	Diorite
Tectonic:	Andean Cordillera
Alteration processes:	Wallrock Is Kaolinized, Epidotized, And Chloritized, And Some Alunite Has Been Reported. The Breccia Fragments (Ore) Are Intensely Altered To An Essentially Structureless Aggregate Of Quartz And Sericite With Some Disseminated Pyrite And Chalcopyrite

References

MRDS	W002195
DEP	10068920
Reference	{Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK, 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 912}{Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969}{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.