Mine detail: San Jose Copper Belt 27

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Location

Lat / long:

-16.73103, -71.43292

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite
Orebody form:	VEINLETS AND STRINGERS OF CHRYSOCOLLA AND BROCHANTITE IN FRACTURED QUARTZITE, DISSEMINATED CHALCOCITE AND CHALCOPYRITE IN QUARTZ MONZONITE
Discovery year:	1875

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Unknown
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	LATE 19TH CENTURY

Geology

Host rock:	Yura Formation, Quartzite
Host type:	Quartz Monzonite,Quartzite
Structure:	Area Underlain Mainly By A Long Roof Pendant Or Tongue Of Quartzite Of The Yura Formation Which. In General Strikes Nw. The Quartzite Is Fractured And Gently Folded Along Axes That Plunge Flatly Se, Its Structure Seems To Be Broadly Anticlinal. Quartzite Is Intruded By Quartz Monzonite That Crops Out As Two Stock-Like Bodies And An Irregular Dike At Least 2 Km Long. The Stocks Are Elongated Approx. Parallel To Fold Axes In The Quartzite.
Tectonic:	Andean Cordillera

References

MRDS	W002196
DEP	10068921
Reference	{Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK, 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 934}{Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU,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., Page, Norman J.