| Location: | Arequipa, Peru, South America |
| Lat / long: | -16.56437, -71.4996 |
| dep_id: | 10068920 |
| mrds_id: | W002195 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Gold, Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Zinc, Lead |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Ankerite, Pyrite, Siderite, Tourmaline |
| orebody_fm: | LENTICULAR |
| work_type: | Underground |
| alteration: | 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 |
| conc_proc: | In The Oxidized Zone, Which Extended As Deep As The 64 Level, Chrysocolla Seems To Have Been The Principal Copper Mineral. Brochandite Is Also Found And Very Likely Other Oxidized Copper Minerals As Well. Molybdenum Oxide Is Reported To Have Been Found In Small Amounts. A Little Chalcocite, Covelite, And Native Copper Have Been Reported In A Zone Of Secondary Enrichment, And Native Copper Is Said To Have Occurred Also With Hematite And Limonite Just Above Water Table On 210 Level. |
| Reporter: | Shaffer, Glenn L. |
| hrock_type: | Diorite |
| tectonic: | Andean Cordillera |
| Year first produced: | 1927 |
| disc_yr: | 1927 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK, 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 912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
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