Mine detail: Chabuca Lead-Silver Mine 19

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Location:	Cusco, Peru, South America
Lat / long:	-13.77279, -70.75791
dep_id:	10068950
mrds_id:	W002227
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Lead, Silver
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Galena
ore_ctrl:	The Chabuca Ore Deposits Are Irregular Steep-Dipping En Echelon Veins In Volcanic Rocks. The Veins Contain Mainly Coarse-Grained Argentiferous Galena With Some Cerrusite And Iron Oxide. Ore Assays 7% Pb And 60 Grams Of Silver Per Ton.
Reporter:	Shaffer, Glenn L.
hrock_type:	Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
arock_type:	Andesite
Structure:	At Chabuca, Sandstone And Quartzite Of Possible Late Paleozoic Age Are Overlain By Volcanic Rocks Correlated With Tacaza-Sillapaca Volcanics Of The Arequipa-Puno Area And Are Intruded By Porphyritic Trachyandesite Or Andesite.
tectonic:	Andean Cordillera
References:	Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK, 1960, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, P. 1124 Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969 Deposit:: DUENAS, ENRIQUE, 1907, ASPECTO MINERO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DEL CUZCO: CUERPO DE ING. DE MINAS DEL PERU BOL., NO. 53, P. 116-120 Deposit:: FORT, MICHEL, 1926, LA INDUSTRIA MINERA DEL PERU EN EL ANO DEL CENTENARIO 1921: BOL. MINAS, IND. Y CONSTR., SER. 2, V. 15, P. 61 Deposit:: 5) LOSTANAU, LEOPOLDO, 1928, INFORME SOBRE EL MINERAL DE CHIMBOYA: LA VIDA MINERA, V. 1, P. 87-89. Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS, UNPUB. REP Production:: FRANK SIMONS, 1960, UNPUB. REP.