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⇱ Zircon from Potosí Mine, Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Holguín Province, Cuba


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Zircon from
Potosí Mine, Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Holguín Province, Cuba

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Potosí Mine, Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Holguín Province, Cuba
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1290127
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1290127:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
16.8km (10.5 miles) Mercedita Cr deposit, Moa-Baracoa District, Holguín Province, Cuba
49.3km (30.7 miles) Sierra del Convento, Guantánamo Province, Cuba
51.9km (32.3 miles) Mejías beach placer, Holguín Province, Cuba
References
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differentiation of tholeiitic melts (Moa-Baracoa ophiolite, Cuba) Núria Pujol-Solà, Joaquín A. Proenza...differentiation of tholeiitic melts (Moa-Baracoa ophiolite, Cuba), LITHOS(2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/...differentiation of tholeiitic melts (Moa-Baracoa ophiolite, Cuba) Núria Pujol-Solà1 , Joaquín A. Proenza1...srilankite, and zircon are important high-field-strength elements (HFSE) bearing phases in the Potosí chromitite...Zone of the Cretaceous Moa-Baracoa suprasubduction zone ophiolite (eastern Cuba). Such HFSE-bearing phases
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magmatic Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides from the Potosí chromitite deposit, eastern Cuba José M. González-Jiménez, Joaquin...magmatic Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides from the Potosí chromitite deposit, eastern Cuba, Ore Geology Reviews (2020), doi:...magmatic Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides from the Potosí chromitite deposit, eastern Cuba 4 5 José M. González-Jiméneza... 31 1 32 Abstract 33 The Moa-Baracoa ophiolite in eastern Cuba is one of the few known 34 ophiolites...this study confirm that Fe- 45 Ni-Cu sulfides at Potosí are magmatic in origin, and very likely derived
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Manuel Enrique Pardo Echarte Editor Geology of Cuba Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland... Manuel Enrique Pardo Echarte Editor Geology of Cuba 123 Editor Manuel Enrique Pardo Echarte Exploration...Investigación del Petróleo El Cerro, La Habana, Cuba ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic) Regional... Foreword Books about the general theme of Geology of Cuba have been published in the course of the years,...Cuban geology in a volume are known: Geology of Cuba (Furrazola et al. 1964), the first book to describe
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Krasta) in Albania, Oregon, USA, Moa- 209 Baracoa ophiolitic massif, Cuba and elsewhere is the occurrence...mantle–crust transition zone in the Moa- 231 Baracoa ophiolitic massif (Cuba) is associated with sulfides...from the Eretria (Greece), Lemesol (Cyprus) and Cuba ophiolites, while it is comparable to 241 that...Highly heterogeneous Os isotopic composition at Cuba, Bulgaria (Rhodope massif), China and 363 everywhere...those from the Pindos, Shetland, Beri and 376 Cuba, they are characterized by high Pd/Ir ratios at
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subduction, dated at  311 Ma. Keywords: Chromitite, zircon, UHP conditions, mantle recycling, Baja California...for the mafic-ultramafic rocks by U-Pb dating on zircon from plagiogranites that intrude peridotites in...Agustín and San Cristóbal (Fig. 2). The El Tigre district is located to the north of the Arroyo del Tigre...chromite ore already mined. The El Tigre mining district groups a set of 18 medium-sized (up to 4 m thick...peridotite, striking NW80SE. The San Agustín district includes 6 smaller lenses and tabular bodies of
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greys strong pressure twins Duftite Mimetite Zircon Hübnerite Graphite clear to milky Anglesite... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample
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oceanic crust into the mantle at subduction zones. Zircon, because of its exceptional robustness, is probably...suggest that arc magmas picked up the inherited zircon cargo from their mantle sources. Accounting paleogeographic...Republic AC 1. Introduction CE Keywords: inherited zircon, crustal recycling, subduction zone, Caribbean...influenced by this global-scale recycling process. Zircon, because of its exceptional physical and chemical...Hauterivian times (e.g., at ca. 135 Ma in central Cuba; Rojas-Agramonte et al., 2011; between 136- NU
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Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico) Siegfried Siesgesmund...Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico), Ore Geology Reviews...Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico) Siegfried Siesgesmund1...Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Av. Manuel Nava 5, 78240 San Luis Potosí, Mexico 3 División de Geociencias...San José 2055, Lomas 4° Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, Mexico 4 Department of Earth Sciences, University
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production at two important mines in Bolivia, Porco and Potosí, are described. Petersen’s field work indicates...use today. Native copper from the Cerro de Pasco Mine, a shell used as a palette for mixing cinnabar-based...in Latin America. The pleasure has certainly been mine. I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation...gravity: 6.8–7.1. Related minerals: wolframite, zircon, garnet, and vesuvianite. Localities in Perú and...Adán, Casma; Mina de Escoruro, Santa Isabel de Potosí, Bolivia. Anthracite, (C). Black, vitreous, submetallic
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Sources of Lead in the San Cristobal, Pulacayo, and Potosí Mining Districts, Bolivia, and a Reevaluation of...Cristobal, the Pulacayo polymetallic district, and the giant Potosí silver-tin-base metal deposit. Lead... Lead isotope ratios of ores from Pulacayo and Potosí are similar to each other and lie within the range...compositions of the Pulacayo and Potosí ores, and the isotopic homogeneity of the Potosí ores also argues against...Cristobal ores are different from those of Pulacayo, Potosí, and other deposits to the east, but resemble the
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pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Rocks of Africa...last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Now a few more...Zimbabwe, as well as plenty more from the Kuruman district. 3 ========================================
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thin-skinned to thick-skinned shortening in the Potosí uplift, Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico...uplifts such as the Potosí uplift in Nuevo León. Thick-skinned deformation in the Potosí uplift involved...in the northern uplift. Palaeocene to mid-Eocene zircon (U-Th)/He cooling dates record the timing of exhumation...separate tectonic event. Zircon (U-Th)/He dates across the southern Potosí uplift and the Aramberri uplift...~66–53 Ma, whereas dates in the northern part of the Potosí uplift range from ~49–44 Ma. We attribute the transition
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Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...& MINERALS Figure 2. Siderite with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The...Very fine examples of siderite were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage...associated quartz (fig. 2). From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come
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Autónoma de México, Carretera Querétaro-San Luis Potosí km 15.5, Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Apartado Postal...age for the La Guitarra deposit, Temascaltepec district. From the latter, adularia from a barren stage...activity of the Sierra Madre Occidental volcanic province (Staude and Barton, 2001). The Sierra Madre Occidental...as the Sierra Madre del Sur Tertiary magmatic province (Morán-Zenteno et al., 1999). The time relation...México, Michoacán, Nayarit, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. The oldest epithermal deposits
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North American plate margin in México. It is this province that is the subject of the paper by Ferrari et...for the first time, a comprehensive view of the province, including its structural and stratigraphic characteristics...of the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the province as well as a discussion of the age-old debate...The Mesa Central (Mexican Plateau) is a geologic province whose stratigraphy and structure are very different...propose the crustal structure of this geologic province, taking into account the tectonics of the oceanic
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developed south of the classical flat-slab Laramide province, characterized by uplift of NU large crustal...exposed in central-eastern Sonora, MA with U-Pb zircon ages between ~91 and 89 Ma (McDowell et al., 2001;...during this time, including the tungsten skarn province of Sonora, which partially overlaps the porphyry...belt (Mead et al., 1988), and the orogenic gold province of PT northwestern Sonora (Izaguirre et al....Madre ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Occidental volcanic province. Similar sequences have been documented for the
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ABSTRACT We use U-Pb ages for 2655 individual detrital zircon grains in 30 samples of Upper Triassic (Carnian–Norian)...the Texas uplift to the El Alamar paleoriver and Potosí subsea fan of northeastern Mexico contains populations...INTRODUCTION 1 Supplemental File 1. Excel file of U-Pb (zircon) geochronologic analyses by laser-ablation multicollector...2010 Dickinson et al. Lang Syne data, detrital zircon populations from the western flank of the Auld...(González-León et al., 2009), and the El Alamar paleoriver–Potosí subsea fan system of northeastern Mexico (Barboza-Gudiño
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Argentina and is the easternmost metallogenic province of the central Andes (Ahlfeld, 1967; Turneaure...Rice, 1997), which makes Llallagua the largest tin mine of the western world. The bulk geochemical tin enrichment...dispersion) is on the order of 2 Mt Sn. The Cerro Rico de Potosí is the historically most important silver producer...producer of the world and became an important tin mine in the early twentieth century. The cumulated Ag production...Rico and the deposits of the Quechisla mining district with Chorolque, Tasna, and Chocaya (Sillitoe et
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thumbnail-size azurite specimen from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece, which I acquired at the...Greece generally and from the ancient Laurium district especially. Some of Christos’s Laurium azurite...from the very small 2017 find in the Christiana mine which yielded the specimens seen in Munich later...harm either: Azurite, 4.2 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...======== Azurite, 1.8 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and
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Milliken, Antonio Lanzirotti, and Matthew Newville Zircon and apatite geochemical constraints on the formation...deposits related to andesitic magmatism (Khan Kandi district, NW Iran)—Ali Abedini, Mansour Rezaei Azizi, and...brine and redbed-derived fluid: Schwarzwald mining district, SW-Germany—Benjamin F. Walter, Jordan L. Jensen...volcanic-intrusive complex in the Zijinshan ore district, southeast China: Implications for different stages...country rocks in the Shangdan uranium mineralization district of North Qinling orogenic belt, China—Feng Yuan
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stratigraphic unit. Petrographic data and U-Pb zircon ages suggest that the Sierra de los Cuarzos Formation...Distribution of the Late Triassic El Alamar fluvial system, Potosí Fan, and Arteaga Complex is depicted in the figure...referred to as the El Alamar fluvial system and Potosí Fan, respectively (Silva-Romo et al. 2000; Barboza-Gudiño...volcano-sedimentary assemblages of the Nazas volcanic province (Bartolini and Spell 1997; Barboza-Gudiño et al...interpreted as representing a dismembered section of the Potosí Fan deposited on an oceanic substrate marginal
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El Dragón Selenium Mineralization, Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia Günter Grundmann 1 and Hans-Jürgen...13], district of Hiaco de Charcas, Chayanta Province, and El Dragón, Antonio Quijarro Province, both...both in the Department of Potosí [14]. Virgen de Surumi is the type locality of ahlfeldite (Ni,Co)SeO3 ·2H2...occurrence. 2. Regional Geology The abandoned El Dragón mine (entrance and dump) is located at ~19◦ 490 23.90”...m above sea level, about 5 km east of the Porco mine, which is currently Bolivia’s most productive zinc
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breakup Triassic–Jurassic Ayú Complex Acatlán Complex Zircon geochronology Tectonics a b s t r a c t We present...plasma mass spectrometry) U–Pb detrital and igneous zircon data of poly-deformed metamorphic and igneous rocks...pegmatite bodies, which are characterized by inherited zircon populations of ca. 260–290, 320–360, 420–480, 880–990...found in the Chazumba Lithodeme. U–Pb (detrital zircon) dating of seven metasedimentary samples from the...Z A 20˚ I F Guanajuato I C Zihuatanejo “Potosí fan” arc E A pa Arcelia Teloloapán com p
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flanks of the dome contains in the “25 de Mayo” mine working partially oxidized clasts of altered and...section of Cerro Rico, showing vein systems and mine levels sampled in this and previous studies. Line...samples of alunite were collected from the Pailiviri mine. These are creamy-white chalky alunite (sample...statistically indistinguishable from both the U-Th-Pb zircon age of 13.8 ± 0.2 Ma obtained by Zartman and Cunningham...biotite age is consistent with the fission-track zircon ages of Schneider (1985) and Cunningham et al.
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Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de San Luís de Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México; dDepartment of Geological Sciences...in young zircon grains; and (2) airborne ash clouds transported Santonian-Campanian zircon grains to...cases, the volcaniclastic content and detrital-zircon record of adjacent sedimentary basins can provide...To-Torreón; MoMonterrey; Za-Zacatecas; SLP-San Luis Potosí; Gu-Guanajuato. correlate closely with emplacement...(Christiansen et al. 1994). Although the detrital zircon record of the Cordilleran foreland basin of the
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