Mine detail: Monterrosas Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-13.98696, -75.60137

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
Secondary:	Silver, Cobalt
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Martite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Apatite, Chlorite, Epidote, Quartz, Sphene, Tourmaline
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Other material:	Hematite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1982

Geology

Host rock:	Early Gabbro, Patap Superunt
Host type:	Diorite
Structure:	Monterrosas Fault And Coastal Batholith
Alteration processes:	Actinolitization, Scaplitization, Chloritization, Epidotization

References

MRDS	W700699
DEP	10085151
Reference	{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 46.}{Deposit:: SIDDER, G.B., 1984, ORE GENESIS AT THE MONTERROSAS DEPOSIT IN THE COASTAL BATHOLITH, ICA PERU: UNPUBLISHED PH.D. THESIS, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, 221 P.}{Deposit:: SIDDER, G.B., UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT.}{Deposit:: PAGE, N.J, FIELD VISIT, 1983-1985.}{Deposit:: VIDAL C., C.E., ESPINOSA, J.I., SIDDER,G.B., AND MUKASA, S.B., 1990, AMPHIBOLITIC CU-FE SKARN DEPOSITS IN THE CENTRAL COAST OF PERU: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 85, NO. 7, P. 1447-1461.}{Deposit:: NOBLE, D.C. AND VIDAL, C.E., 1994, GOLD IN PERU: SEG NEWSLETTER, APRIL 1994, NO. 17, P. 1, 6-13.}{Production:: SIDDER, UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. NOBLE AND VIDAL (1994).}
Reporter	Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J.