Mine detail: Potrerillos

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Location: Atacama, Chile, South America
Lat / long: -26.46578, -69.43391
dep_id: 10182822
mrds_id: W001550
mas_id: 3370090019
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Gold, Molybdenum, Silver
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Azurite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Cuprite, Enargite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Tenorite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Porter, Kenneth E.
Year first produced: 1926
disc_yr: 1894
References:
  • 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.
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