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⇱ Chalcedony from Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia


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Chalcedony from
Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:864486
Long-form Identifier:1:3:864486:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
2.5km (1.5 miles) Iroco mine (Kori Chaka), Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
36.9km (22.9 miles) Juliana Mine (Fenix Mine), Condeauque mining district (Conde Auque), Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
68.7km (42.7 miles) Incuyo, Tapacari Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
90.6km (56.3 miles) Lili mine (Lomitas deposit; Alfonso Bedoya mine), Laurani District, Aroma Province, La Paz, 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...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...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
XXXVII THE ORURO GEOLOGY MARCH-APRIL, SILVER-TIN DONALD F. 1942 DISTRICT, No. 2 BOLIVIA. CAMPBELL...Chace. 2 After two yearsof work as geologistat the Oruro minesthe writer hasarrivedat an interpretationof...review of it will be given here. Location.--The Oruro district is locatedon the Bolivianhigh plateau2oo...Andeswhich forms the easternboundaryof the plateau. Oruro, oneof the principalBoliviancities,liesat the easternfoot...History.8--It is probablethat the first miningin the Oruro district was doneby the nativesduring the Inca period
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS II F. SOCIETY NO. 5 1948 OF ORURO, BOLIVIA.* CHACE. PART I. CONTENTS. PAGE Abstract...344 351 353 354 356 357 367 Production of the Oruro District 374 377 ...............................next number. ABSTRACT. The iin'-silveroresof Oruro, Bolivia,occurin complexveinsthat are found in and adjacentto...Publishedwith the permissionof Compafiia Minera de Oruro. sertation, Harvard University. 333 Abstract of...occur in four clusters:the San Jos•-Socav6n,the Itos, La Colorada,and Tetilla. During ore depositiontelescopingtook
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Report (article/chapter)
source characterization of the San Jos6 Mine, Oruro, Bolivia DAVID B A N K S 1'4, WAYNE H O L D E N 3...2URS Dames & Moore (Bolivia), Avenida Santa Cruz #1344, Piso 1, Cochabamba, Bolivia 3URS Dames & Moore...Minera de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia Abstract: The San Jos6 Mine is a mothballed Ag-Sn mine near Oruro on the...the current mine water pumping operation; (ii) potential future mine flooding; and (iii) mine waste leachate...leachate, at risk sources. Mine flooding rates have been simulated using two models (MIFIM and MODFLOW)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TIN-SILVER OF GEOLOGISTS VEINS OF F. M. ORURO 1948 No. 6 BOLIVIA. CHACE. PART II. CONTENTS--PART................................... Genesisof the Oruro ore deposit ......................................rock alterat{onassociated with ore deposit{on at Oruro varies cons{derably {n intensity with the several...quartz latite porphyry can be found in the San Jos• mine even far from veins without disseminated pyrite... and matrix alike. . TIN-SILVER VEINS OF ORURO,BOLIVIA. 437 The pyroxeneand amphibolehave nearly
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
70, 1975, pp. 913-927 PorphyryTin Depositsin Bolivia R. H. SILLITOE,C. HALLS, AND J. N. GRANT Abstract...central and southern parts of the Bolivian tin province has been derived largely from lode systemsassociatedwith...including those at the major Llallagua, Potosi, Oruro, and Chorolque mineralized centers, geological characteristicsof...of eraplacement; coeval volcanicsare preservedat Oruro and Chorolque,and perhaps also at Potos[ A mineralized...dikes that intrude the Paleozoic-to- The tin province Tertiarysuccession are considered late Tertiary
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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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Report (issue)
S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geologico de Bolivia in cooperation with the Trade Development Program................................. 1 Department of Oruro......................................100 Department...the U.S. Geological Survey-Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia as part of the Mineral Resource Evaluation of the...reports in the files of the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia located in their main office in La Paz. All of...States, and the Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia. This report is an edited version of
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Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
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Book (edition)
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...grey), carbonate matrix (dark grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
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mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26x 16 cm 22...* 20 x 18 x 14. cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1x 1 om Acicular...hematite with iridescent limonite coating, Parcocha Mine, Bilbao, Spain * 19 x 19 x 16 cm Goethite, Tintic...Brazil + 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaragu, Minas Gerais, Brazil + 12 x 19 x 6 em...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...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...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
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Journal (issue)
Calaveras County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$1,400 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. GOLD—1.4 oz. mass, large crystals...dera County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$2,750 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. KRISTALLE Wayne and Dona.............. 28 by Peter B. Leavens The Bluebell Mine, Riondel, British Columbia, Canada................since then there has been no production. The major mine in the district, the Jumbo, produced 5000 tons of...copper mine at Bingham, Utah. Recently there has been some prospecting and drilling in the Jumbo mine area
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Report (volume)
Mine Water Hydrogeology and Geochemistry Geological Society Special Publications Society Book Editors... GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION No. 198 Mine Water Hydrogeology and Geochemistry EDITED BY P...WOLKERSDORFER, C. Mine water tracing 47 WHITWORTH, K.R. The monitoring and modelling of mine water recovery...physically based model of rebound in South Crofty tin mine, Cornwall 89 ROBINS, N.S., DUMPLETON, S. & WALKER...Depressurization of the north wall at the Escondida Copper Mine, Chile 107 KUMA, J.S., YOUNGER, P.L. & BOWELL
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mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5...divided by the weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10
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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...preferred position. in the figure labeled San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. 461 insert superscript...Black Forest read Odenwald. 14, down for Rhine Province read Westphalia. 16, down for in the Tirol read...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...pegmatite minerals together with scheelite (Natas mine, South- West Africa); in contact metamorphic gold
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Book (volume)
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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Report (issue)
between galena sphalerite, Darwin Lead-Silver-Zinc mine, Inyo County, California, Econ. Geol., v. 66, p...MEXICO; U. xiii 66, isotope study S. Bingham mine, Utah--a 515-542 of the '"'B" limestone mining... 1971, p. 215-225 The Bolivian tin-silver province: Econ. Geol., v. 66, ABSTRACT These bibliographies... in Canada and the United States, by state or province. The state in which each Mexican deposit occurs...Finally, to that fine group of scientists and men, the mine geologists of the Americas, who have taken time
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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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CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The powder diagram...Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,* Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...product of blockite (q.v.), from Colquechaca, Bolivia. Perhaps identical with cobaltomenite. Named after...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...or a mixture of these, in a matrix of quartz, chalcedony, &c. So called (A-matrix) because it is an American
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Quartz group: quartz. amethyst, rose quartz, chalcedony. opal. a\·enturine. 155 Sodalite group: sodalite...Sl'h., R111.1ia(S/fJ. 15 Desktop decoration, chalcedony. China, 18'• cent., SPb. Russia (SH). attractive...names to aquamarine, cassiterite, selenite and chalcedony. The splendor and luxury of Ancient Rome were...rubies. The the Sacrament. ve sels made of jasper, chalcedony and House of the Great Moguls in India (1526-1858)...of Figure ·".l\1oumerof rire5,•. I 80 111111,chalcedony, Beloretskiy Gems" in Moscow; "Russian Jeweler"
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British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Nelson, Westland, Otago, and Southland. Emperor mine, Vatukuola, Fiji. Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea. In
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160 - 161 to 163 - 169 to 171 169 170 170 Chalcedony ~ 161 _J\.gate, &c. ... 162 <)nyx, Jasper, &c...H. Humphries. 2. NATIVE COPPER. From Penibrol,e Mine, St. A.1.istell, Cornwall. Presented by R. Taylor...S. 27. NATIVE mingled with quartz. St. George Mine, Perran Porth, Cornwall. Presented by H. IIumphries...NATIVE COPPER, crystallized on qua1--tz. Treskerby Mine, Cornwall. Presented by G. Croker Fox. 31. NATIVE...Cornwall. 18. NATIVE COPPER, dendritic. Pe'IJibroke Mine, ,_~t. Austell, Cornwall. 19. NATIVE COPPER, cr3rsta
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Book (edition)
sulpliide waters —Interpretation of water analyses— Mine waters— Chloride waters—“Carbonate waters— Sulphate...veins in basic lavas General features The Kennecott mine, Alaska— ( ’opper sulphide veins in intrusive basic...amygdaloids— The veins— Mineral association Origin Mine waters Mining and smelting operations-- The copper...Monte Cat ini The copper deposits of Coro-Ck>ro, Bolivia Native copper with epidote in — — — — — —...The sii\'er-tm veins of siderite, and baritt* Bolivia— -The silver-lead replacement deposits in limestone^
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