Mine detail: Las Bambas

Previously called 'Chalcobamba-FerrobambaBambas'

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Location: Apurimac, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -14.06449, -72.36632
dep_id: 10231202
mas_id: 3330050032
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Prospect
other_matl: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Garnet, Pyrrhotite
Reporter: Porter, Kenneth E.
References:
  • Deposit:: ASHESHOV, N. , AND OTHERS, THE BAMBAS, IN ANDEAN-PERUVIAN
  • Deposit:: DEPOSITS IN THE PERUVIAN CORDILLERA: TRANSACTIONS OF THE
  • Deposit:: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL AND PETROLEUM
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERS, VOL. 211, 1958, P. 365.
  • Deposit:: ASHESHOV, N. AND OTHERS, THE BAMBAS: ANDEAN PERUVIAN TIMES,
  • Deposit:: VOL. 34, NO. 1764, P. 22.
  • Deposit:: MINING ENGINEERING, VOL. 26, NO. 7, P. 18, 19.
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 6/92, P.378.
  • Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, 4/17/92, P.277.
  • Deposit:: LATIN AMERICAN MINING LETTER, 4/28/92, P.6,7.
  • Reserve-Resource:: MINERAL FOR EXPORT, SEPTEMBER, 1989, P. 64.
  • Reserve-Resource:: MINERO PERU, INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES, 1991, P.25.
  • Reserve-Resource:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 2/93, P.34.
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