Rosita De Oro Mine

PE / Áncash

•-9.53575, -77.08558View on Map Open in Google Maps

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About this location

Rosita De Oro Mine is a historic mining site in Ancash, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The mineralization is hosted in Jumasha Limestone (Limestone), within the Andes setting. Reported specimens include Copper, Fluorite, Galena, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite; logged ore minerals are Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite; gangue is recorded as Fluorite, Limonite, Quartz. Workings are surface/underground.

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Found Here

CopperFluoriteGalenaLimoniteMalachitePyriteQuartzSphaleriteTetrahedrite

Geology and deposit

Host rock: Jumasha Limestone — Limestone
Orebody form: TABULAR
Tectonic setting: Andes

Ore minerals

GalenaMalachitePyriteSphaleriteTetrahedrite

Gangue minerals

FluoriteLimoniteQuartz

Structure

Folded And Faulted Sedimentary Rocks With Steeply Dipping Axial Planes Trending Nw, Limestone Cut By A Ramified And Branching Dike System

Ore control

Fissures And Shear Zones

Alteration

Silicified Limestone, Altered Feldspars In Dike.

Mining history

Status: Past Producer
Workings: Surface/Underground
Production size: Small

Records and references

Cited references

BODERLOS, A.J. AND ERICKSEN, G.E., 1955, LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS OF CORDILLERA BLANCA AND NORTHERN CORDILLERA HUAYHUASH, PERU. U.S.G.S. BULL. 1017, 166 PCIMRIBODENLOS AND ERICKSEN (1955).

Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10080289 — view the source record

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Coordinates: -9.53575, -77.08558

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