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⇱ Ferberite from Chorolque Mine, Cerro Chorolque, Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia


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Ferberite from
Chorolque Mine, Cerro Chorolque, Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Ferberite
Formula:FeWO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Native Gold3
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ferberite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chorolque Mine, Cerro Chorolque, Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:42327
Long-form Identifier:1:3:42327:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Ferberite
27.5km (17.1 miles) Ánimas Mine, Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
28.2km (17.5 miles) Tatasí, Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
37.8km (23.5 miles) Cerro Tazna, Cotagaita Municipality, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
38.2km (23.7 miles) Tazna Mine (Tasna Mine; Tazna-Rosario Mine), Tasna Rosario, Cerro Tazna, Cotagaita Municipality, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
61.3km (38.1 miles) Veta Montecristo (Monte Cristo mine), Churata District, Caiza D municipality, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
85.2km (52.9 miles) Pueblo Viejo Mine (Central Mine), Esmoraca district, Sud Lípez Province, Potosí, Bolivia
95.1km (59.1 miles) Caracota district, Tomave Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
95.2km (59.1 miles) Caracota Mine (Santa Teresita Mine), Caracota district, Tomave Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
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Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...Ph08pl,ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
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Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................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...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
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the Ag-Sn Formation located within Argentina and Bolivia have been investigated mineralogically and geologically...Argentina, respectively. The Geological Survey of Bolivia contributed through help with the logistics. The...gold- and silverbearing tellurides. The selenium province at La Rioja is the largest one on earth. The prominent...Extensive studies of deposits of the Ag-Sn- Province at Bolivia allowed new insights in their mineralogy...investigations are presented for Oruro, Porco, Potosí, Andacaba, Chocaya and Tasna. A widespread anomaly
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states. Examples include the Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous...famous Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada; with freibergite and andorite at the Bear Basin mines...sphalerite at the Young American mine, Stevens County, Washington; the Old Dowdy mine, Gunnison County, Colorado...löllingite, smaltite, and various sulfides; the Merrimac mine, Doña Ana County, Figure 1. A 2.5-cm-high stannite...arsenopyrite. This 13-cm specimen is from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil
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Universitesi] at 20:13 05 January 2015 Pseudomorphs from Bolivia JAROSLAV HYRSL Heverova 222 CZ-28000 Kolin Czech...Republic ALFRED PETROV casilla1728 Cochabamba Bolivia Figure 1. Map showing deposits discussed in the...the more unusual members of the mineral kingdom. Bolivia is a country well known to collectors as the only...tungsten mines in the altiplano and eastern Andes of Bolivia. Pseudomorphs of native copper, cuprite, chalcocite...Cochabamba, Bolivia. Both authors are also part-time dealers specializing in minerals from Bolivia. 410 ROCKS
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cycle .............. The Tertiary petrographic province ............................. The Tertiary me...excellentwork of Myron Davy (I92O), the Bolivian Tin Province has beenthe object of much detailedresearch. Its...a short summary of the present knowledgeof the province. Many questionshave not yet been solved;geologicaland...provenearly Tertiary2 ageare knownin this part of Bolivia. The batholith of apliticgranitewhichI foundin...canism in themiddle andsouthern partsof thetin province pro• Theageof theyoungmagmatie rocksof Peru,especially
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Metallogenetic Epochs and Provinces of Bolivia The Tin-Province (Part I) The Metallogenetic Provinces...the Altiplano (Part II) F. A~LFELD Cochabamba, Bolivia Partf. An attempt is made to solve the relationships...formation of ore deposits using the Bolivian tin-province as an example. In the eastern Cordillera we are...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with...down-faulted and consequently preserved. The polymetallic province of the Altiplano contains subvolcanic ore deposits
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Articles Famous mineral localities: Llallagua, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...perhaps the finest known, 2 cm, from Llallagua, Bolivia. Mark Chance Bandy collection; current owner unknown...practical experience at the Gottesehre (“God’s Honor”) mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near...E-Mail: stuwil@aol.com Rhodochrosite, Uchucchaqua mine, Lima Dept. Peru 2 inches. Wilensky photo. Clara...SMALE Famous Mineral Localities: Llallagua, Bolivia Jaroslav Hyrsl Ke kurtum 383 142 00 Prague, Czech
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category ........ 4, 5. Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tungsten contained in ore and concentrate—...also recovered from placer deposits. Most current mine production of tungsten is from vein/ stockwork,...accounted for over three-fourths of the world’s mine production of tungsten. China alone produced about...wolframite ranges from the iron-rich variety, ferberite, containing 60.5 percent tungsten, to the manganese-rich...new mines in Brazil and boosted production in Bolivia, Japan, and Spain. In the 1950’s, during and after
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biotite or biotite-muscovite granite or, as in Bolivia, with shal-low-seated volcanic rocks such as quartz...major lode tin deposits of the world (those of Bolivia excepted) are o:f this type.2 Lodes are near or...Alaska 2. Manley Hot Springs, Alaska 3. Sullivan mine, British Columbia, Canada 4. New Brunswick area...Tex. 8. Black Range district, New Mexico 9. Climax mine, Colorado 10. Gorman area, California SOUTH AMERICA...Brazil 5. Rondonia-Tapajos, Brazil 6. Tin belt, Bolivia 7. lpameri, Goias, Brazil 8. Encruzilhalda, Brazil
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.................. .42 3.1.6 Pirquitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina ..................................... 58 3.2.7 Maranda J, Murchison belt, Northern Province, South Africa ........... 59 VIII Table of...Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............................ 89 3.4.13 Bolivar, Cerro Bonete Area, Cordillera...Occidental, Bolivia ............ 89 3.4.14 Huari-Huari, Potosi, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............Occidental, Bolivia ......... 91 3.4.16 San Vicente, Uyuni, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ...........
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United States; Mexico; Argentina; Peru; Chile; Bolivia; Brazil . • • 59 ij.E;FERE�CES ro LJTEEATURE ON...Argentina 394 700• 1,000• 1,912 584 638 539 171 Bolivia 276 920• I,650• 793 207 2 97 497 564 Peru 196 400•... The pure iron tungstate, FeW04, is known as ferberite, and the pure manganese tungstate, MnW04, ashiibnerite...cent. or more of the iron 1nolecule are called ferberite, and all those with over 80 per cent. of the manganese...recorded that half a carload was once shipped from a mine in British Columbia, but this appears to be an isolated
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Report (issue)
Apatite rough (3.7 cm tall) and cut (24.61 carats) Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico John Lucking collection... Werner's apatite samples originated in the tin mine in the town ofEhrenfriedersdorfin the Erzgebirge...Mimetite; San Francisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico Pyromorphite; Les Farges Mine, Correze, France Fluorapatite...Fluorapatite, 3 cm tall; Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Fluorapatite in Calcite; Liscombe Property...ultramafic rock body of the Piedmont physiographic province inNorth Georgia (Vincent, McConnell, and Perley
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ma) Cu (Santiago,Valparffiso) and Fe (Morritos,Cerro Pelado)veinsof the IloItc district.RestrictedUpper...hydrothermalactivity Oriental of southeastern Peru and western Bolivia rangesfromrigorousto tenuous(for an objectlesson...iArequip (' X Santa Rosa District? ............ (Cerro Ve•e) /a ..... JMOQUEGUA %•'•.•Cacachara ""' .....separatedby matism in southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia more protracted periods of tectonic quiescenceor...contributeseveralwhole-rockRb-Srisochrons for trenched on Cerro Morritos. Bellido and de Montreuil intrusiverocksof
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today. Morro Velho mine of St. John del Rey Mining Co. is the world’s deepest gold mine and the oldest now...to the oldest gold mine now in operation in the Western Hemisphere, the deepest mine in the world and...company, and in half an hour reached the mine. Although the mine staff consists almost entirely of Englishmen...Morro VELHO—THE WorLD’s DEEPEST GOLD MINE The Morro Velho mine of the St. John del Rey Mining Co., at...the State of Minas Geraes, is the most interesting mine in all South America and in some respects one of
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E. W. Pehrson A Model Plant for Sherwood Iron Mine . 43 R. D. Sotterley Canada Has Tungsten Producer...Huttl Spain's Mining Industry Today . Lode Gold Mine in Colombia — II . Forbes Grinding Progress in...dealing with the elec¬ trical features of Interna¬ Mine Equipment and Supplies Classified Under P-56 . ...underground aircraft plant in the abandoned workings of a mine in England. The storeroom with girl employees. Fox...the price staff of OPA. Detailed records of each mine are studied to determine just how much of the three
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United States Coke Production.......... Anthracite Mine Inspectors’ Examination. Scranton Correspondence...been satisfactorily tested at the Robinson Deep mine. The set consists of a short cross-bit starter and...ft. of development work was done. At the Clermont mine the 413 intermediate drift between the 600- and...275,000 427,638 8 daae : S. | 1.50 . 122,269 mine the drift on International Nick.,com.| G3" | 2...making an orebody over 100 ft. long. At the Mohawk mine the 354 sill floor was extended, and produced 1647
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Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, and Maniema
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Mineralization in the Nigerian Younger Granite Province . . . 51 P. Bowden Tourmalinization in Cornwall...Tin-tantalum-niobium Pegmatites in the Masuku Area, Southern Province, Zambia ......... . . . .............. . .......Mineralization and Fluid Inclusion Study of the Yod Nam Tim Mine, Southern Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Boliviana Mayor de San Andres, Casilla 6548, La Paz, Bolivia F.M. VOKES Geologisk Jnstitutt, Norges Tekniske...field trip to the classical Cornubian tin mining province of southwest England. The excursion, superbly
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EL! New Developments in the Porco District, Bolivia By Joserit T. SINGEWALD, JR.,* AND BENJAMIN SY...conducted in a more the first to be worked in Bolivia for silver and are or less desultory way by Bolivians...shipped. The Porco mines are said to be the first in Bolivia worked by the Spaniards, and the neighboring but...LERoy MILLERt Bethle- PORCO DISTRICT, on the BOLIVIA opposite side of Huayna side of Huayna Porco from...large part of the eastern range of the Andes in Bolivia. The summit of Apo Porco appears to be entirely
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2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
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native metal. Occurs Ontario, Canada (Vermilion Mine), and North of platinum in Carolina (Cowee Valley)...Cornwall and many places in Europe, Siberia, Brazil, Bolivia (Corocoro), Australia and Tas- Chili, mania,...Superior, Alaska (Mount Wrangell), Peru, Chili, Bolivia (Corocoro), etc. Mexico (Boleo), Black oxide... Tagilsk), Chili, Japan, Australia, Mexico Bolivia, (Boleo), Peru, United States (Tennessee, Arkansas...Butte), Arizona (Bisbee, Jerome, Clifton, etc.), Bolivia (Corocoro). Chalcopyrite, or copper pyrites
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would be a good thing for compressed-air columns in mine shafts and for air lines of more than nominal size...Placers, the Considered as a single metallogenic province, by sixth type, are formed from all grades of... ing metallogenic province is the Cordilleran, includUses of Tungsten ing Bolivia and the adjacent closely...and cathodes of Spain, and Italy form the fourth province, to which Roentgen (‘“X’’) ray tubes, for electric...interOther uses are portance, and is a distinct province, practically all mittent electric contact is needed
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Approximate production percentages are Malaysia 39%, Bolivia 15%, Thailand 11%, Indonesia 12%, Australia 6%...of the continent, it is possible to outline a province extending from Alaska to Mexico. (Sainsbury et...would hesitate to nominate the entire zone as a province. Similarly global scale linear tin belts can be...(Schuiling, 1967a, 1967b). Even within a well accepted province the perspective of different scales is important...Asian tin zone is normally regarded as a single province extending some 3000 km. from Thailand to Indonesia
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geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an answer in the terms of the second question...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border... 16 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 9 8 X Colavi, Bolivia RAMDOHR Wolframite (hübnerite), in typical lath-shaped
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