 | | Report (issue) | | PROSPECTS OF THE I, H, IE, IV, AND V REGIONS, NORTHERN CHILE compiled by William C. Williams Open-File Report...complement to my dissertation work in northern Chile under the auspices of Dr. John Guilbert at the University...prospects in the I, n, IE, IV, and V Regions of Chile (Figure 1). Over 3000 sites were compiled from published...well as descriptions of the major mines throughout Chile with insights as to their genesis. Finally, Frutos...accessed through MRDS computer database). District Name District to which site belongs. Lati tude / Long |  | Benavides, J., Kyser, T. K., Clark, A. H., Oates, C. J., Zamora, R., Tarnovschi, R., Castillo, B. (2007) The Mantoverde Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold District, III Region, Chile: The Role of Regionally Derived, Nonmagmatic Fluids in Chalcopyrite Mineralization. Economic Geology, 102 (3) 415-440 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.102.3.415 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Mantoverde Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold District, III Región, Chile: The Role of Regionally Derived, Nonmagmatic...CASTILLO** Anglo American Chile Ltda, Avenida Pedro de Valdivia 291, Santiago, Chile Abstract Located in...Cordillera de la Costa of northern Chile, the mines of the Mantoverde district exploit supergene oxide ore developed...developed over several Lower Cretaceous, hematite-rich, iron oxide-Cu-Au (IOCG) deposits with an average...geologic setting and genesis of this productive IOCG district are clarified herein through regional petrologic |  | Quang, C. X., Clark, A. H., Lee, J. K. W., Guillen B., J. (2003) 40Ar-39Ar AGES OF HYPOGENE AND SUPERGENE MINERALIZATION IN THE CERRO VERDE-SANTA ROSA PORPHYRY Cu-Mo CLUSTER, AREQUIPA, PERU. Economic Geology, 98 (8) 1683-1696 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.8.1683 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND SUPERGENE MINERALIZATION IN THE CERRO VERDE-SANTA ROSA PORPHYRY Cu-Mo CLUSTER, AREQUIPA, PERU CHAN X...Peru Abstract The contiguous Cerro Verde and Santa Rosa porphyry copper deposits are hosted by Paleogene...1.1 Ma for Cerro Verde, and 62.2 ± 2.9 Ma for Santa Rosa, representing the terminal event in the Arequipa...Coastal batholith. The deposits crop out on the Santa Rosa erosional pediment, which itself is incised into...thereafter continuing through the Oligocene. In the Santa Rosa deposit, deep (ca. 300–350 m) leaching in the |  | Quang, C. X., Clark, A. H., W. Lee, J. K., Hawkes, N. (2005) Response of Supergene Processes to Episodic Cenozoic Uplift, PedimentErosion, and Ignimbrite Eruption in the Porphyry Copper Province of Southern Peru. Economic Geology, 100 (1) 87-114 doi:10.2113/100.1.0087 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Ignimbrite Eruption in the Porphyry Copper Province of Southern Perú CHAN X. QUANG, ALAN H. CLARK...Canada K7L 3N6 AND NICHOLAS HAWKES Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Limited, Manco Cápac 551 - Lima...through field mapping to the Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa district (ca. 16° 30' S). The 40Ar-39Ar incremental-heating...probably active in the Cuajone-Quellaveco-Toquepala district. Slow erosion and the accumulation of clastic...natroalunite at Cerro Verde, 26–27 Ma natroalunite at Santa Rosa, and 28.6 Ma jarosite at La Llave) to the early |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | METALLOGENETIC CARLOS RUIZ PROVINCES F. AND GEORGE OF CHILE, S. A. • E. ERICKSEN CONTENTS PAGE Abstract........... ABSTRACT The metalliferousdepositsof Chile tend to be restrictedto well defined metallogeneticprovinces...synthesis of the knowledgeof the ore depositsof Chile basedon studiesnow beingcarriedout and on publishedand...ore deposits. Most of the known ore depositsof Chile are in the northern half of the country; relativelyfew... 1960) indicatethe magnitudeof presentday mining in Chile: Copper Molybdenum Lead Zinc Gold Silver Mercury |  | | Report (issue) | | Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient Perú A translation of Minería y Metalurgia en el Antiguo Perú Arqueológicas...[Minería y metalurgia en el antiguo Perú. English] Mining and metallurgy in ancient Perú / by Georg Petersen... Contents Introduction to the English translation of Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient Perú . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient Perú Prologue . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Alluvial Gold Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | Weber Mamaroneck, NY Articles Collector's diary: Iquique, Copiapo and Chanarcillo ...........................103 by M. Hansen The libethenite zone, Burra mine, South Australia .................................92-meter level,” though all other measurements in the mine will be converted. In short, English units will...worked in the Surveyor’s Department at the Geevor tin mine (Pendeen, Cornwall), and with Consolidated Goldfields...Record, March-April, 1984 Collector's Diary Iquique, Copiapo, andChanarcillo Mark Chance Bandy, 1935 |  | | Book | | fR/^PI5C0%ubUc library lineral Wealth and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America edited by Alan...Quest of Mineral Wealth Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America edited by Alan...quest of mineral wealth: aboriginal and colonial mining and metallurgy in Spanish America / edited by Alan...Overview Robert C. West 5 Observations on Ancient Mining within the Northwestern Regions of the Mesoamerican...Phil C. Weigand 21 Pre-Hispanic Metallurgy and Mining in the Andes: Recent Advances and Future Tasks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper Deposits in the Coastal Cordillera, Northern Chile Dania TRISTA and Shoji KOJIMA Departamento de Ciencias...Norte, Av. Angamos 0610, Casilla 1280, Antofagasta, Chile [e-mail (SK): skojima@socompa.ucn.cl] Received on...deposits of the Tocopilla district (Deseada, San José, Santa Rosa) and the Gatico district (Yohanita, Toldo-Velarde...Argentina) in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile were inferred from mineral paragenesis and fluid...Keywords: Coastal Cordillera, Tocopilla-Gatico province, pluton-hosted, vein-type copper deposits, hypersaline |  | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS • Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- LX x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors | | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in México...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in México, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- x / Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black and red chalcedony (containing hypogene hematite). At the contact with the pyrite-quartz body,...FeS) and galena. The outermost zone consists of hematite, magnetite, and Fe-Mn-Zn-Ca-Mg carbonates. Most... orebodies took place. In the Venencocha and Santa Rosa areas, located 2.5 km northwest of the Cerro...However, the presence in the pyrite-quartz body of hematite within quartz suggests that, locally, the fluids...–114‰) and on alunite from the Venencocha and Santa Rosa areas (δ18O = 1.9–6.9‰, δD = –56 to –73‰). Oxygen |  | Arfè, Giuseppe, Boni, Maria, Mondillo, Nicola, Aiello, Roberto, Balassone, Giuseppina, Arseneau, Vernon, Soyk, Dominik (2016) Supergene Alteration In the Capricornio AU-AG Epithermal Vein System, Antofagasta Region, Chile. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (3) 681-706 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600012 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Au-Ag EPITHERMAL VEIN SYSTEM, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE GIUSEPPE ARFȧ AND MARIA BONI* Dipartimento...INTRODUCTION The Antofagasta region in northern Chile hosts many of the world’s significant porphyry Cu...owned by SQM Inc. (Sociedad Quı́mica y Minera de Chile), hosts a low-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag vein system...same area. REGIONAL GEOLOGY The Atacama Region in Chile consists of several physiographic units, which include...deposits of the Coastal Cordillera in northern Chile (Coira et al. 1982). The Paradero del Desierto Formation |  | Pérez-López, Rafael, Asta, Maria P., Román-Ross, Gabriela, Nieto, José Miguel, Ayora, Carles, Tucoulou, Rémi (2011) Synchrotron-based X-ray study of iron oxide transformations in terraces from the Tinto-Odiel river system: Influence on arsenic mobility. Chemical Geology, 280 (3) 336-343 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.11.021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dissolved iron along the riverbeds impacted by acid mine drainage (AMD). This paper includes the study of...AMD-affected streams of two IPB abandoned mines (Tinto Santa Rosa and Cueva de la Mora) showed that fresh precipitates...re-crystallizes to hematite due to diagenetic processes. The transformation rate of goethite into hematite is negatively...in grain size and a decrease in surface area of hematite, and a concomitant decrease in arsenic trapped...B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Acid mine drainage (AMD) generated by sulphide oxidative dissolution |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand ............................731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California ....................SCORODITE crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals...supplement showing many details of the Berezovsk mining district, the subject of the July–August 2016 issue...larger Ekaterinberg district (including the Berezovsk district). Figure 26. The gold mining region around Berezovsk |  | | Book | | mineralogists active in Brazil 69 Notable national mining en~·neers and mineralogists 73 Ca inets of curiosities...The auriferous claims 148 The gold mine of Morro Velho 153 The Mine of Passagem 155 The/old rush in P'ianc6...274 276 The class of oxides :ind hydroxides Iron mining in Brazil The Qu:idrilatero Ferrifcro The discovery...topaz 385 T he imperial topaz of Ouro Preto 393 The Mine of Capao do Lana 397 The imperial topaz of Antonio...of the pyralspite series 411 essartine 414 ~ he Mine of Pedra Bonita 416 Garnets of the ugrandite series |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...gysinite-(Nd) and other rare minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G |  | | Book | | Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Sulfides in the Greenstone Belt of South-Central Chile - An Overview G. Alfaro and S. Callao . . . . ....Formation and Massive Sulfide Orebodies, South-Central Chile: Geologic and Isotopic Aspects S. Callao, G. Alfaro |  | Parviainen, Annika, Cruz-Hernández, Pablo, Pérez-López, Rafael, Nieto, José Miguel, Delgado-López, José Manuel (2015) Raman identification of Fe precipitates and evaluation of As fate during phase transformation in Tinto and Odiel River Basins. Chemical Geology, 398. 22-31 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.01.022 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fein Keywords: Acid Mine Drainage Iron terraces Schwertmannite Goethite Hematite Arsenic a b s t r a...transformation, well-crystallized goethite and diagenetic hematite were the major phases in the ancient terraces...retained slightly higher concentrations of As than hematite suggesting that As is mobilized in the transformation...years, and intensive mining since 4500 years ago (Nocete et al., 2014) provoked Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) enhancing...(Fernández-Remolar et al., 2005). In AMD-after mining environments, metastable schwertmannite [Fe8O8(OH)5 |  | | Report (issue) | | ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv............................ 4 BY ALFREDO PETROV Mining, Politics, and Tumult: A Brief Look at Bolivian...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District ................................................in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ............................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2009 Articles Topaz from near El Chaltén, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. . . . . . . . . . ....21 by G. Steger George Wade Foott: Contemporary mining artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...cm (4 inches), from the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably...2008 issue for his article on the Mockingbird gold mine). Like the rest of us on the staff, he will be striving... 2009 5 Topaz from near El Chaltén Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Robert Brandstetter Auweg 1, A-2831 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 The Mineralogy of Desperation Mining Tourmaline and Kotoite in North Korea Alfredo Petrov...the element in question (prices can be volatile), mining costs, chemical processing, distance from markets...miners in the Wuning (Wuling) antimony mine in Jiangxi Province of southeastem China. Stibnite is most...retardants and engine bearings. "That it survived the mining process at all is a miracle," said George Harlow...flats in the Andes Mountains of Argentina Peru, Chile and Bolivia. (The biggest reserves in the world |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | no stolzite equivalent of wulfenite’s Red Cloud mine, yet attractive, somewhat wulfenite-like stolzite...Queensland, Australia; the Fat Jack mine, Arizona; and Santa Rosa, Argentina. Stolzite is dimorphous with... These include the well-known Loudville (Mahan) mine at Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts...Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the Silver Hill mine, Davidson County, North Carolina. It has been found...A fine 1.4-un stolzite on matrix from Ste.Lucie mine, Ste.-Lkgerde Peyre, Lozkre, France;Eric Asselborn |  | | Report (issue) | | deposits, or a formally designated mining district. For some mining districts described in this report...individual deposits within the district are also given. This was done so that district-scale phenomena, such as...as zoning, could be described in the district record, whereas deposit specific data could be described...individual mines and mining claims. MINING DISTRICT/AREA Name of the mining district or geographical area...area to which the deposit belongs. 11 PROVINCE The Republic of Bolivia is divided into 9 departments |
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