Mine detail: Cerro De Pasco

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-10.66462, -76.24972

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Tertiary:	Copper
Other material:	Argentite, Barite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Enargite, Galena, Marcasite, Polybasite, Pyrite, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Discovery year:	1630

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Development status:	Plant
First production started:	1630

Geology

References

MRDS	W700062
MAS	3330350002
DEP	10279856
Reference	{Deposit:: JULY8, 1975: GEOL. DEPT. OF CERRODE PASCO CO., 1971, GEOLOGY}{Deposit:: CERRO DE PASCO MINERAL DISTRICT: PASCO, PERU, MAPS, PROFILES}{Deposit:: PURSER, W.F.C., 1971, METAL MINING IN PERU: PRAEGER PUB.,}{Deposit:: PETERSEN, ULRICH, 1970, REGIONAL GEOLOGY AND MAGOR ORE DEPOS}{Deposit:: CENTRAL PERU: ECON. GEOL., VOL.60, NO. 3, PP. 407- 476}{Deposit:: 1975 EMJ INT DIRECTORY, MCGRAW HILL PUBLISHERS, PAGE 256}{Reserve-Resource:: AME MINERAL ECONOMICS QUARTERLY MINE ANALYSIS, JUNE 1993,}{Reserve-Resource:: P. 39, 49.}
Reporter	Difrancesco, Carl A.