Mine detail: Cerro De Pasco

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Location: Pasco, Peru, South America
Lat / long: -10.66462, -76.24972
dep_id: 10279856
mrds_id: W700062
mas_id: 3330350002
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Silver, Zinc
Trace mineral: Copper
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Plant
other_matl: Argentite, Barite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Enargite, Galena, Marcasite, Polybasite, Pyrite, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
work_type: Surface, Underground
Reporter: Difrancesco, Carl A.
Year first produced: 1630
disc_yr: 1630
References:
  • 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.
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