Mine detail: Cucurucho

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Location: San Juan, Argentina, South America
Lat / long: -30.91413, -69.9995
dep_id: 10094167
mrds_id: AR16002
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold
Minor mineral: Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Anhydrite, Pyrite, Quartz
alteration: Intense Hydrothermal Brecciation & Alteration Over Several Hundred Meters, Replacement By Pyrite, Quartz, Kaolinite (Dickite) & Minor Anhydrite.
Reporter: Venable, Margaret
hrock_type: Rhyolite
References:
  • Deposit:: ANGELELLI, V., 1984, YACIMIENTOS METALIFEROS DE LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA: LA PLATA, PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES, COMISION DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, VOL. , P. SHATWELL, DAVID, 1990, NEW EPITHERMAL GOLD PROSPECTS IN WESTERN ARGENTINA: MINING ENGINEERING, AUGUST 1990, P. 989-991
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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