Mine detail: Quiruvilca

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Location: Cajamarca, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -7.79804, -77.99976
dep_id: 10133117
mas_id: 3330110007
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Silver, Zinc
Minor mineral: Copper, Gold
Trace mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Enargite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Porter, Kenneth E.
Year first produced: 1920
References:
  • Deposit:: PURSER, W. F., 1971, METAL-MINING IN PERU PAST AND PRESENT:
  • Deposit:: PRAEGER, NEW YORK, 339 PGS.
  • Deposit:: 1975 E/MJ INT.DIR. P.257.
  • Deposit:: BARTOS, PAUL J., GEOLOGY, MINERALIZATION, ALTERATION, AND
  • Deposit:: ZONING OF THE CU-PB-ZN-AG LODES AT QUIRUVILCA, PERU, IN
  • Deposit:: PACIFIC RIM CONGRESS 87, AUGUST 26-29, 1987, P.519-523.
  • Reserve-Resource:: AME MINERAL ECONOMICS QUARTERLY MINE ANALYSIS, JUNE 1993,
  • Reserve-Resource:: P. 39, 49.
  • Reserve-Resource:: ASARCO INC., 1993 10-K, P.A15-A19.
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