Mine detail: Fortuna Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-9.52214, -77.10531

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc
Ore:	Galena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Calcite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1860

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Jumasha Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Folded And Faulted Sedimentary Rocks With Steeply Dipping Axial Planes Trending Nw, Nw Trending Dikes Intrude Area
Tectonic:	Andes
Alteration processes:	Limestone And Dike Rocks Are Pyritized; Altered Phenocrysts Of Dike Rock

References

MRDS	W031411
DEP	10080297
Reference	{Deposit:: BODENLOS, A. J. AND ERICKSEN, G.E., 1955, LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS OF CORDILLERA BLANCA AND NORTHERN CORDILLERA HUAY HUASH, PERU. U.S.G.S. BULL. 1017}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: BODENLOS AND ERICKSEN (1955).}
Reporter	Rowe, William D. (Ericksen, George E.), Page, Norman J.