Mine detail: Colqui, Peru

Previously called 'San JuanLourdesYau-YauMaria TeresaVeinsColquiIvonne CobreGabyVermouthFinlandia VeinQuinarcan'

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Location: Lima, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -11.54871, -76.46306
dep_id: 10079728
mrds_id: W029829
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Zinc
Minor mineral: Copper, Silver, Gold, Cadmium
Trace mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Marcasite, Polybasite, Proustite, Realgar, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite, Wolframite
gangue: Barite, Fluorite, Kaolinite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Sericite, Siderite
other_matl: Pyrite
alteration: District Wide Propylitic Alteration, Near Finlandia Vein Changes To Argillic And Closer To Quartz-Sericite Alteration.
ore_ctrl: Tension Ene Faults
Reporter: Theune, C.T., Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: Finlandia Formation;Lower Colqui Formation;Middle Colqui Formation;Upper Colqui Formation;Lourdes Formation
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_unit: Ustro Formation;Llicpe, Grande, Sasca, Piti Stocks
arock_type: Andesite
Year first produced: 1956
References:
  • Deposit:: BELLIDO BRAVO, E. AND DE MONTREUIL D., L.,1972, ASPECTOS GENERALES DE LA METALOGENIA DEL PERU, P.74, MINISTERIO DE ENERGIA Y MINAS, SERVICIO DE GEOLOGIA Y MINERIA
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINES 1979, P. 321.
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINES 1985, P. 291.
  • Deposit:: HEALD, P., FOLEY, N. K, AND HAYBA, D.O., 1987, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF VOLCANIC HOSTED EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS: ACID-SULFATE AND ADULARIA-SERICITE TYPES: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 82, P. 1-26.
  • Deposit:: KAMILLI, R.J., AND OHMOTO, H., 1977, PARAGENESIS, ZONING, FLUID INCLUSION, AND ISOTOPIC STUDIES OF THE FINLANDIA VEIN, COLQUI DISTRICT, CENTRAL PERU: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 72, NO. 6, P. 950-982.
  • Production:: E&MJ (1979), WORLD DIRECTORY (1984); CUMULATIVE DATA FROM KAMILLI AND OHMOTO (1977).
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