Mine detail: El Pao

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Location

Lat / long:

8.05006, -62.6019

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Clay, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Specularite
Gangue:	Apatite, Pyroxene, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENSES
Other material:	Corundum
Discovery year:	1920

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1950

Geology

Host rock:	Imataca Complex
Host type:	Quartzite
Structure:	El Pao Fault, Two Deep Structural Basins, The Long Axes Of Which Are At Right Angles To One Another, Joined By A Tight Cross-Anticline.
Tectonic:	Guayana Shield

References

MRDS	W026905
DEP	10078534
Reference	{Deposit:: ALVARADO, BENJAMIN, 1970, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTH AMERICA, IN SURVEY OF WORLD IRON ORE RESOURCES -- OCCURRENCE AND APPRAISAL: NEW YORK, UNITED NATIONS, P. 302-380.}{Deposit:: KALLIOKOSKI, J., 1965, THE METAMORPHOSED IRON ORE OF EL PAO, VENEZUELA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 60, P. 100-116.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1981, IRON ORE MINING IN VENEZUELA: V. 145, NO. 1, P. 18-25.}{Deposit:: RODRIGUEZ M., S.E., 1986, RECURSOS MINERALES DE VENEZUELA: BOLETIN DE GEOLOGIA, REPUBLICA DE VENEZUELA, MINISTERIO DE ENERGIA Y MINAS, DIRECCION GENERAL SECTORIAL DE MINAS Y GEOLOGIA, V. 15, NO. 27, 228 P.}{Deposit:: INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE INTEGRACION, 1986, GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICA, AREA DE RECURSOS MINERALES: LA PAZ, INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE INTEGRACION, 716 P.}{Deposit:: ZULOAGA, GUILLERMO, 1935, THE GEOLOGY OF THE IRON DEPOSITS OF THE SIERRA DE IMATACA, VENEZUELA: AM. INST. MIN. METALLURGY TRANS., V. 115, P. 307-340.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: ALVARADO, BENJAMIN, 1970; RODRIGUEZ M., 1986, P. 141.}{Reserve-Resource:: ALVARADO, BENJAMIN, 1970.}
Reporter	Cooper, Margaret, Shaffer, Glenn L., Bolm, Karen S., Orris, Greta J.