Mine detail: Monterrosas Mine

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Location: Ica, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -13.98696, -75.60137
dep_id: 10085151
mrds_id: W700699
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
Minor mineral: Silver, Cobalt
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Martite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
gangue: Actinolite, Apatite, Chlorite, Epidote, Quartz, Sphene, Tourmaline
other_matl: Hematite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
alteration: Actinolitization, Scaplitization, Chloritization, Epidotization
Reporter: Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: Early Gabbro, Patap Superunt
hrock_type: Diorite
Structure: Monterrosas Fault And Coastal Batholith
Year first produced: 1982
References:
  • 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  • Deposit:: SIDDER, G.B., 1984, ORE GENESIS AT THE MONTERROSAS DEPOSIT IN THE COASTAL BATHOLITH, ICA PERU: UNPUBLISHED PH.D. THESIS, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, 221 P.
  • Deposit:: SIDDER, G.B., UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT.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  • Production:: SIDDER, UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT.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).
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