| Locality type: | Mine Zone |
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| Species: | Cassiterite |
| Formula: | SnO2 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Cassiterite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Cortaderas Zone, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1267696 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1267696:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 00a56715-8536-499b-a7e3-9d38003c113b |
| Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite |
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| 0.4km (0.3 miles) | āVeta Norte vein, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
| 1.8km (1.1 miles) | āPirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
| 2.1km (1.3 miles) | āOploca Vein System, San Miguel Open pit, Pirquitas Mine, Mina Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
| 21.5km (13.3 miles) | āQuebrada de Puca, Cusi Cusi, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
| 30.8km (19.2 miles) | āCerro Salle prospect, Cusi Cusi, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
| 51.1km (31.8 miles) | āPan de Azucar Mine, Rinconada, Rinconada Department, Jujuy Province, Argentina |
| 64.0km (39.8 miles) | āNevados de Poquis (Nevados de Pocuis) alluvial streams, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile |
| 92.2km (57.3 miles) | āMorokho mine (Himalaya mine; Veta Rica), Cerro Morokho (Cerro Moruco), Sud LĆpez Province, PotosĆ, Bolivia |
| 99.9km (62.1 miles) | āHerrerĆa Mine (10 de Diciembre Mine), Cerro Bonete, Sud LĆpez Province, PotosĆ, Bolivia |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE EPITHERMAL Ag-Zn-Pb-Sn-RICH CORTADERAS ZONE, PIRQUITAS MINE, ARGENTINA EVAN T. SLATERĀ§, ANDREW M. MCDONALD...epithermal Ag-Zn-Sn-rich Cortaderas Zone (CZ) at the Pirquitas mine, Jujuy, Argentina, were studied using...sulfosalt geothermometry. The CZ containing the Cortaderas breccia is dominated by colloform sphalerite...hosting signiļ¬cant base-metal mineralization. The Pirquitas mine, which is known to host signiļ¬cant Ag-Zn-Sn-Pb...Ag-Zn-Sn-Pb Ā§ mineralization, is located in Jujuy, Argentina, and is considered to represent the southernmost |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sn-Ag-(Zn) vein-type mineralization at the Pirquitas deposit, NW Argentina: Fluid inclusion and noble gas isotopic...Bolivian tin belt Pirquitas Epithermal Ag-Sn deposits Fluid inclusions Noble gas The Pirquitas Sn-Ag-(Zn) deposit...deposit in northwestern Argentina is thought to be an analogue to the Miocene polymetallic epithermal...origin and evolution of ore-forming ļ¬uids at Pirquitas. This paper reports on a microthermometric study...mineralization event II deposited the richest Ag ores at Pirquitas. Colloform sphalerite and pyrargyrite deposited |  | Lyubimtseva, N. G., Bortnikov, N. S., Borisovsky, S. E., Vikentāeva, O. V., Prokofiev, V. Yu. (2019) Coupled DissolutionāPrecipitation Reactions of TennantiteāTetrahedrite Minerals in the Darasun Gold Deposit (Eastern Transbaikalia, Russia) Geology of Ore Deposits, 61 (6) 530-548 doi:10.1134/s1075701519060047 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and lead (teallite, PbSnS2) with aggregates of cassiterite and galena (Betekhtin et al., 1958) or the decomposition...aggregates with a zonal texture in which each individual zone is heterogeneous and/or zones have a different texture...wavypatterned zoning is observed in the rim. The inner rim zone is uneven around the core: it is almost absent towards...face, where it has a width of 30ā40 Ī¼m. Its next zone (dark gray) is of variable thickness as well. Only...this zone and the core is zigzag; from the side of the face (110), it cements the previous zone. Its |
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