| Corral, Isaac, Cardellach, Esteve, Corbella, Mercè, Canals, Àngels, Gómez-Gras, David, Griera, Albert, Cosca, Michael A. (2016) Cerro Quema (Azuero Peninsula, Panama): Geology, Alteration, Mineralization, and Geochronology of a Volcanic Dome-Hosted High-Sulfidation Au-Cu Deposit. Economic Geology, 111 (2) 287-310 doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.2.287 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Vol. 111 March–April No. 2 Cerro Quema (Azuero Peninsula, Panama): Geology, Alteration, Mineralization...Denver, CO 80225 Abstract Cerro Quema (Azuero Peninsula, southwest Panama) is a high-sulfidation epithermal...maximum age of lower Eocene (~55–49 Ma) for the Cerro Quema deposit. It was probably triggered by the...de Ronde et al., 2003; Embley et al., 2004). In Panama, gold and copper are the most economically important...hosted by epithermal (e.g., Cana, Santa Rosa, and Cerro Quema deposits; Woakes, 1923; Wleklinski, 1969; | | | Report (chapter) | enrichment, generating a well defined orebody with bornite--chalcopyrite--chalcocite as the main copper minerals...north of Santiago in the fourth region, Choapa province, Municipality of Salamana and access is via the...purpose of constructing, developing and operating the mine at the Los Pelambres site. Project description...the development and preparation of an underground mine in the East Zone (one of the two high grade zones...A. FALrNES, J. FORKES 8c J. O'LEARY / J fro Colorado 14u,4ue ~Drod4 Blanc(; Abro E~:ondida z ~ | | Tsang, Debbie P.W., Wallis, Simon R., Yamamoto, Koshi, Takeuchi, Makoto, Hidaka, Hiroshi, Horie, Kenji, Tattitch, Brian C. (2018) Zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Cerro Colorado porphyry copper deposit, northern Chile. Ore Geology Reviews, 93. 114-140 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.12.019 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | U–Pb Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Cerro Colorado Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile Debbie...U–Pb Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Cerro Colorado Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile, Ore...U–Pb Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Cerro Colorado 2 Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile...examined cores extracted from Cerro Colorado, an 73 active PCD mine site that lies at the northern...Charrier et al., 2007). The 75 cores supplied by the mine site sample all the main rock types of this 76 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | rocks in the northern and eastern parts of Cerro Colorado and the southern wall of Corta Atalaya. They...original protolith. In the western extensions of Cerro Colorado, close to the Rio Tinto–Aracena road, peperitic...layering in felsic porphyry, northeast wall of Cerro Colorado; B: Peperitic associations between felsic porphyry...metapelite and bedded tuff, southwest corner of Cerro Colorado; D: Thin bedded mafic tuffs, north wall of Corta...volcanic rocks Outcrops of these units in the Cerro Colorado opencut are confined to its southwestern corner | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ........ General Electric Mine I (Grand Lode) ...... General Electric Mine II (ImmenseLode I).. References...car, and lies sevenmiles off the road from the Cerro 879 879 879 879 on U.S. Highway89 betweenTucsonand...879 879 Guijas Mountainsof the Basin and Range province. 879 The mountainsare moderatelydissected,eight...Tucson (Fig. 1). The district 878 General Electric Mine III .................. General Electric IV .......Immense Lode II .......................... Fernstrom Mine Area ...................... Buster Lode Typesof | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Porphyry copper deposits account for 60% of the world's mine production of copper and constitute 80% of ore reserves...Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland Panama 7. Cerro Colarado X Kesleretal. (1977), Linn et al... La Granja SA 39. 40. Rosa 41. 42. Antamina Cerro Verde-Santa References Langlois (1978) 4 Titley...Quellaveco 44. Michiquillay X X X Chile 45. Cerro Blanco 46. Chuquicamata SAI X SAI S X 48. El...the top, although information from drillholes and mine exposures is more limited. Sulfide zoning usually | | | Journal (issue) | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................Thirty-two, Number Six by J. A. Mandarino COVER: BORNITE crystal, 1.6 cm, on quartz , from Dzezkazgan, Kazakhstan...in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Paragenesis of the Botija Porphyry Cu-Mo-(Au) Deposit, Panama Michael D. Sepp† and John H. Dilles College of...of seven Cu-Mo-Au porphyry deposits in the Cobre Panama district, which currently has a global resource...granodiorite porphyry. Cu-Fe sulfides (chalcopyrite > bornite) at Botija are largely disseminated but are also...seven porphyry deposits observed today at Cobre Panama were likely produced by normal faulting that dismembered...faulting and extension that deformed the Cobre Panama district shortly after ore formation at 29 to 28 | | | Book (edition) | MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...uranium and vanadium deposits; "mine fire" minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites...Research and Development Commission, Grand Junction, Colorado American Museum of Natural History, New York Arizona-Sonora | | | Book (edition) | Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...16 PART ONE INTRODUCTION Wulfenite. Glove mine, Cottonwood Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa...79 mine, Gila County. Wayne Darby collection. Jeff Kurtzeman. Wulfenite on mottramite. 79 mine, Gila...pounds of copper Wulfenite on stalactite. Red Cloud mine. Trigo Mountains, Yuma County. Harvard University | | | Book (edition) | Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...16 PART ONE INTRODUCTION Wulfenite. Glove mine, Cottonwood Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa... 79 mine, Gila County. Wayne Darby collection. Jeff Kurtzeman. Wulfenite on mottramite. 79 mine, Gila | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Petrological and Geochemical Characteristics of the Cerro Colorado Plutonic Complex in the Precordillera of Northern...2004; accepted on January 9, 2005 Abstract: The Cerro Colorado intrusive stock in the northeastern Chilean...predominantly of pyroxene-bearing biotite monzogabbro (Colorado Unit), with lesser amounts of pyroxene-bearing...of major and trace elements suggest that the Cerro Colorado complex is composed of shoshonitic alkali granitoids...margin. The basic to intermediate rocks of the Colorado Unit are characterized by high contents of Al2O3 | | | Book (edition) | zy MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County...District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...uranium and vanadium deposits; “mine fire” minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites...Develop- AM ASDM ment Commission, Grand Junction, Colorado American Museum of Natural History, New York Arizona-Sonora | | | Report (issue) | 1. A.-Ore deposition and enrichment at the Magma mine, Superior, Arizona: Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Trans....flakes at the Empire mine, and as small masses of wire silver, Flora Morrison mine. Bisbee district, in...chalcocite, more rarely with halloysite. Commonwealth mine, Pearce, with cerargyrite, embolite, and jarosite...at the Continental mine, as stout wires in the oxidized ore of the Old Dominion mine. Fine specimens from...of the Silver Butte mine. Graham County.-Aravaipa district, at the La Clede mine. MINERALS OF ARIZONA | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | metasomati.c replacement. Throughthe courtesyof the mine officials,particularlythoseof the Rio Tinto, Tharsis...DISTRICT, SPAIN. 571 tends eighty miles across the province of Huelva and into Portugal. We of the Congresssaw...7 Ibid., pp. 363-367. $" Igneous Rocks of the Province of Huelva and Genesis of the Pyritic Orebodies...it alsoexposed theoredeposits. Cerr0 Coloradoand Cerro Salomonrise as monadnocks abovethis peneplain level...respectivelyas San Dionisio, South, E1 Valle, Cerro Colorado, CerroSalomon, La Dehesa,North,andE1Lago. The | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | erosion. Low sulfidation-state chalcopyrite ± bornite assemblages are characteristic of potassic zones...El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro de Pasco & Colquijirca Choquelimpie Esperanza Escondida...Escondida & Chimborazo Panguna Cerro Colorado Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri...the latest Cretaceous to Paleocene (Laramide) province of southwestern North America, middle Eocene to...suggests extended life spans, 1 to >1.5 m.y. at Cerro de Pasco and Colquijirca, central Peru (Bendezú | | Braxton, D. P., Cooke, D. R., Ignacio, A. M., Rye, R. O., Waters, P. J. (2009) Ultra-Deep Oxidation and Exotic Copper Formation at the Late Pliocene Boyongan and Bayugo Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposits, Surigao, Philippines: Geology, Mineralogy, Paleoaltimetry, and their Implications for Geologic, Physiographic, and Tectonic Controls. Economic Geology, 104 (3) 333-349 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.104.3.333 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geological Survey, P.O. Box 25046, MS 963, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA American Exploration (Philippines)...Niño (Ph) Atlas (Ph) Aya Aya (Ph) Salatan (Ph) Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa (Pe) Kingking (Ph) Rio Blanco...Chuquicamata (Cl) Inspiration (Az) Toquepala (Pe) Cerro Colorado (Cl) Ok Tedi (PNG) El Abra (Cl) Mocoa (Co)... Thickness (m) 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 336 Peru Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa 150 Cuajone 120 Quellaveco 80 Toquepala...Pelambres El Teniente La Escondida Chile El Abra Cerro Colorado Rosario Ujina Chuquicamata Gaby Deposit Leached | | | Report (volume) | IRVING With a section on MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF PANAMA By FRANK S. SIMONS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...CostaRica----------------------------------------------Panama and the Canal Zone----------------------------..._________ Siria mine ________________________ ------------- __ ----Los Hornitos mine ______ ;_______...mine____________________________________ La Uni6n mine ________________ -----------------------(}uatem...______ __ ____ ______ _ 48 48 49 50 51 51 51 La Paz mine ______ ---------------------------Cabanas distr | | | Report (issue) | Availability curves Operating and capital costs Mine and mill operating costs Total production costs...26 26 27 27 27 28 TABLES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. World mine production of copper Nimiber and status of copper...commodity prices used in analysis 13. Estimated mine and mill operating costs for producing copper mines...total production cost ranges Estimated annual copper mine capacity Copper potentially available from U.S....of Denver, Colo. WORLD COPPER PRODUCTION World mine production of copper in 1980 was 7.7 million tons | | | Report (issue) | flakes at the Empire mine, and as small masses of wire silver, Flora Morrison mine. Bisbee district, in...chalcocite, more rarely with halloysite. Commonwealth mine, Pearce, with cerargyrite, embolite, and jarosite...ca1citeat the Continental mine, as stout wires in the oxidized ore of the Old Dominion mine. Fine specimens from...of the Silver Butte mine, Graham County-Ar avaipa district, at the La Clede mine. Maricopa County-From...Picacho District. Mohave County-Cerbat Range, Distaff mine, as chunks of several pounds' weight in the deeper | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | found later during the working of the North Lyell bornite-chalcopyrite-pyrite ores. 757 758 MICHAEL SOLOMON...Lyell); chalcopyrite-pyrite (Lyell Comstock); and bornite-chalcopyrite-pyrite (North Lyell). These ores lie...MICHAEL SOLOMON conglomerates were depositedin the mine area. These conglomerates consistof a hematite-quartz...CongLomerete / F•c. 6. Cross-sectionthrough the Comstock Mine, looking north. Pebblesof fractured and hematite-veinedchert...similargoethite-veined chertoverliespyriticore on the Cerro Colorado at Rio Tinto, Spain (27). 764 MICHAEL SOLOMON | | | Report (issue) | (McCue, 1980); free gold is associated mainly with bornite, partly with chalcopyrite and negligibly with pyrite...11.5 to 18.5 percent silver are associated with bornite-gangue grain boundaries at Granisle, B.C. and with...and inclusions of sylvanite and hessite occur in bornite at Dos Pobres, Arizona (Langton and Williams, 1982)...(1982) found a high correlation of gold grade with bornite content at Granisle, B.C. In some deposits such...Brenmac-Sultan, WA Cash, Yukon Casino, Yukon Cerro Colorado, Panama Copper Flat, N.M. Dexing, China Granisle | | | Report (volume) | vein deposits located in the Cordillera Oriental, Cerro Rico de Potosi being the best example. After hundreds...technical assistance to private mine operators about mineral exploration, mine development and operation,...trained to provide technical assistance to private mine operators, as well as to conduct reconnaissance...personnel were to supply guidance to small private mine operators on management and bookkeeping, service...1959, when the program ceased to grant loans to mine operators, the small staff consisted of one geologist | | Barra, Fernando, Reich, Martin, Selby, David, Rojas, Paula, Simon, Adam, Salazar, Eduardo, Palma, Gisella (2017) Unraveling the origin of the Andean IOCG clan: A Re-Os isotope approach. Ore Geology Reviews, 81. 62-78 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.10.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | TE mineralization D chalcopyrite and minor bornite with important amounts of gold and silver. The...few are still under production (Los Colorados, Cerro Negro Norte). MA Stratabound Cu(-Ag) deposits...comprises a paragenesis of pyrite-chalcopyrite-bornite with later chacocite-covellite-djurlerite with... TE grading to magnetite-chalcopyrite-pyrite-bornite at intermediate levels, and hematite- AC CE P...(Maksaev and Zentilli, 2002). The central Andes IOCG province, located in the Coastal Cordillera of northern | | Velasco, F., Herrero, J.M., Suárez, S., Yusta, I., Alvaro, A., Tornos, F. (2013) Supergene features and evolution of gossans capping massive sulphide deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Ore Geology Reviews, 53. 181-203 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.01.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mesa (Riotinto); CM, Cueva de la Mora; CC, Cerro Colorado (Riotinto); CF, Confesionarios; HE, Herrerías;...mainly on oxidized exposures scattered across the province, confirm the importance of these outcrops. They...author studied the most economically significant Cerro Colorado deposit, at Riotinto. Kosakevitch et al. (1993...from massive sulphides and gossan in San Miguel mine; and Romero (2005) examined the dump and hardpans...mineralogy References Alto de la Mesa (Riotinto) Cerro Colorado (Riotinto) 1500 >1500 10 to 30 10 to 70 |
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