Mine detail: Potrerillos

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Location

Lat / long: -26.46578, -69.43391

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Molybdenum, Silver
Other material: Azurite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Cuprite, Enargite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Tenorite
Discovery year: 1894

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1926

Geology

References

MRDSW001550
MAS3370090019
DEP10182822
Reference{Deposit:: MARCH, W. S. JR. 1935 ORE DEPOSITS AT POTRERILLOS, CHILE.}{Deposit:: WASHINGTON. 16TH INT. GEOL. CONG.P 485 500}{Deposit:: CLARK, A. H. AND SILLITOE, R. H. 1969 ARTHURITE FROM POTRERI}{Deposit:: ATACAMA PROVENCE, CHILE MINERAL. MAG. VOL.37 NO 288 P519 520}{Deposit:: METALS SOURCEBOOK 7/5/74 ITEM (B3436)}{Reserve-Resource:: MINING MAGAZINE- MAY 1979 P.446}{Reserve-Resource:: E/MJ, JULY 1966, V. 167, NO.7, PAGE 75}{Reserve-Resource:: PRIVATE REPORT, 1974.}{Reserve-Resource:: CHILE ECONOMIC REPORT, JAN. 1989, P 5.}{Reserve-Resource:: E/MJ, NOV. 1979, P 68.}
ReporterPorter, Kenneth E.