Mine detail: Animas Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-20.9559, -66.30778

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc
Tertiary:	Tin
Ore:	Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Marcasite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1800

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1870

Geology

Host type:	Shale,Sandstone
Associated rock:	Chocaya Stock
Associated type:	Dacite
Structure:	Sedimentary Rock Folded Into Anticline Striking Nw-Se.
Tectonic:	Nw Trending Eastern Cordillera
Alteration processes:	Silicification, Pyritization

References

MRDS	W031630
DEP	10080438
Reference	{Deposit:: AHLFELD, F., AND SCHNEIDER-SCHERBINA, A., 1964, LOS YACIMIENTOS MINERALES Y DE HIDROCARBUROS DE BOLIVIA: DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE GEOLOGIA, BOL. 5.}{Deposit:: ARIAS, A., 1972, ESTUDIO GEOLOGICO MINERO DEL AREA ANIMAS-CHOCAYA: LA PAZ, UMSA, TESIS DE GRADO}{Deposit:: SILLITOE, R.H., 1972, RELATION OF METAL PROVINCES IN WESTERN AMERICA TO SUBDUCTION OF OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE: GEOL. SOC. AMER. BULL., V. 83, N. 3}
Reporter	Urquidi-Barrau, Fernando