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Chalcocite from
El Dragón mine, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Dragón mine, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1277186
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1277186:4
GUID (UUID V4):485826a0-1389-4c21-af99-7f2440950ada
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
93.5km (58.1 miles) Tazna Mine (Tasna Mine; Tazna-Rosario Mine), Tasna Rosario, Cerro Tazna, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of the El Dragón Selenium Mineralization, Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia Günter Grundmann...April 2017 Abstract: A re-examination of the El Dragón vein-type Se deposit using polarized light microscopy...by volcanic-hydrothermal activities around the Porco caldera, formation of the mineralization involved...endmember penroseite; vaesite; genetic sequence; El Dragón; Bolivia 1. Introduction Research on selenium minerals...for the two selenium occurrences in the Andes of Bolivia: Virgen de Surumi (also known as “Pacajake”) [12
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Cacheuta Vein-Type Se Mineralization, Mendoza Province, Argentina Günter Grundmann 1 and Hans-Jürgen...Cacheuta vein-type Se mineralization in the Mendoza Province predominantly consists of clausthalite, klockmannite...from Cacheuta from Argentinian Se deposits in the Province of La Rioja: (I) trachytic host rock fragments...in the Sierra de Cacheuta district, also known as el Cerro de Cacheuta, Minerals 2018, 8, 127; doi:10... Minerals 2018, 8, 127 2 of 22 in the Mendoza Province. Sierra de Cacheuta is the type locality of achavalite
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Abstract: In a section of the abandoned Pb –As mine of Baccu Locci (SE Sardinia), where several Se-bearing...world, Pacajake and El Dragón, occur in the Ag – Sn mining district of Potosí, Bolivia (Southern part of...of the polymetallic Province of the Altiplano). The ore bodies, hosted by gray sandstone and shale of...is now exhausted, and the recently discovered El Dragón remains the richest natural selenium concentration...occurring in the ores of the Andean polymetallic province of central Peru, the Se concentrations in ore
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Stanley (2018) Cerromojonite, CuPbBiSe3, from El Dragón (Bolivia): A new member of the bournonite group. Minerals...Se)3. It was discovered at the El Dragón mine, Department of Potosí, Bolivia, and named for Cerro Mojon,...to cerromojonite were previously described at El Dragón (phase “C” of Förster et al. 2016) and, as tiny...However, no structural data were provided. At El Dragón cerromojonite found in two different mineral assemblages...emplectite: A new mineral from the El Dragón mine, Potosí, Bolivia. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28
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Stanley Cerromojonite, CuPbBiSe3 , from El Dragón (Bolivia): A New Member of the Bournonite Group Reprinted...of the bournonite group from the El Dragón mine in Potosí, Bolivia [16]. Some new supergene minerals...Stanley, C.J. Cerromojonite, CuPbBiSe3 , from El Dragón (Bolivia): A new member of the bournonite group. Minerals...ordering in both A and B sites, from the Cleveland mine, Tasmania, Australia. Am. Mineral. 2010, 95, 736–740...their anthropogenic counterparts in burning copper mine dumps and ore smelters. 30 Minerals 2018, 8,
Report (issue)
Ancient Perú A translation of Minería y Metalurgia en el Antiguo Perú Arqueológicas 12 Publications of the...Petersen G., Georg, 1898–1985. [Minería y metalurgia en el antiguo Perú. English] Mining and metallurgy in ancient... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bi-sulfoselenotellurides in products of burning of coal-mine dump at Radvanice near Trutnov [31]. The exceptional...Litochleb et al. [49]. The extraction of material from mine dumps at some Příbram uranium mines (in particular...of 2005–2015 to monitor selenium minerals in the mine dump material and obtain more samples for a complex...16 (Háje). At that time, this was the deepest ore mine, vertically, in Europe. were constructed, which...indicate as “vein nodes”. the remarkable extent of the mine works in the Příbram uranium ore district: 23 km
Report (issue)
white areas). Sample is from the Buckskin National Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. Photograph by Peter Vikre...............................................Q26 Mine Waste Characteristics.............................1989). The total U.S. supply was always higher than mine production during this period, with a high of 831...as indicated in fig Q3.) The difference between mine production and total supply was owing to the refineries’...of selenium-rich high-grade ores from the Horne Mine at Noranda, Quebec, Canada; by 1950, Canada’s production
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hope's Nose, England (Stanley et al., 1990); El Dragón , Bolivia (Grundmann et al., 1990); and Cerro Cacho...along with Cu-sulfides (chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, digenite and idaite) in a calcite gangue. Locally...Ag-galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite along with minor chalcocite and tetrahedrite in a quartz and carbonate (calcite...calcantite and limonites along with secondary chalcocite and covellite (Cardó, 1999). K/Ar dating on the...deposit occurs in an F-rich silicic large igneous province (Mc Phie et al., 2011). IOCG deposits in the Andean
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COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful
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. . . . . . . 217 by A. R. Kampf The Dee North mine, Elko County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 13.6 cm, from the famous Malmberget mine, Gällivose, Lapland, Sweden. Peter Lyckberg collection;...Jackson to take over the operation of the Rock Candy mine (the subject of a 1981 article by Joe in the Mineralogical...District, Baja Calif. $10 v.29/#4 The Sweet Home Mine! 192 pages, 180 color photos! Spectacular! $20 ...info@trafford-flynn.com UK Mining Ventures Fluorite—Rogerley mine, Weardale, UK www.ukminingventures.com e-mail: Jef520@aol
Journal (issue)
Number Two Articles Cuprian elbaite from the Batalha mine, Paraíba, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Wilson Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...etch pits and corrosion surfaces, from the Medra mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Keith Proctor collection;...info@trafford-flynn.com UK Mining Ventures Fluorite—Rogerley mine, Weardale, UK www.ukminingventures.com e-mail: Jef520@aol...March–April, 2002 Cuprian Elbaite from the Batalha Mine, Paraíba, Brazil Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
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Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch Collection v.10/#2 Jeffrey mine (Quebec), Alpine Rodingites...Lotharmeyerite (Mapimi) $12 v.15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Brazil), v.15/#6 Bad Ems (Germany), Jensen quarry
 
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