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Topaz from
Chojlla Mine, Yanacachi District, Sud Yungas Province, La Paz, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Topaz
Formula:Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Comments:in apatite-bearing veins in granite country rock
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Topaz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chojlla Mine, Yanacachi District, Sud Yungas Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:494912
Long-form Identifier:1:3:494912:1
GUID (UUID V4):b5a0c845-1522-4de6-9435-1f1974995ff6
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...(presumably without the shrine) to a European in La Paz, Bolivui. Rolf Wein bought the specimen on July...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11ďż˝. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,Uďż˝ Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...old geotectonic zone of weakness divides the tin district into two parts which differ from each other in...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SmithandTurek, 2). Mineralizationis confinedto topaz-richgreisen ablefor stanniferous and vein systemsin...intrudeslower Paleozoicmetawhich haspetrologieaffinitiesto topaz rhyolitesor turbiditic sedimentaryrocksof the Meguma...Shelton a smalllobe off the batholithproper. This topaz granet al., 1987) indicatethat externalreservoirsmaybe...successive zonesdominatedby topaz and quartz + sulfides_+topaz, or dark, topaz + sulfide+ graphitegreisensof...CLAY (5) ZEOLITE - ALBITE quartz x mica x topaz cassiterite wolframite molybdenite arsenopyrite
Book
at a level of 150,000-250,000 t Sn/year, with a mine output in 1989 of 210,000 t Sn (MCS 1990). This...areas with which the author is most familiar with (Bolivia, SE Asia, Europe). This inductive approach condenses...any simple and broad-scale picture ("Apr6s tout, la raison est bien I'esclave des passions"; Feyerabend...Northern Bolivia .......................................................... Chorolque, Southern Bolivia .....Launay (1913) introduced the term "metallogenic province". The observational background for this situation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tin-Silver No. 2 Province F. S. TURNEAURE Abstract The tin-silver provinceof Bolivia includesthe Cordillera...mineralization betweenthe tin-silverprovinceof Bolivia, the copperprovinceof Chile and the belt of polymetallicores...The tin-silver provinceof the Eastern Andes of Bolivia has only a generalconnotation,as the belt Geology...determinations of interbeddedvol- THE BOLIVIAN TIN-SILVER PROVINCE • .•, 660 (j•.L__ok_ .e• ,. 'Tiffcoco.•:'L•...Pirquitas Turneaure, 1960). In this district andesitcflows are mine in Argentina,a distanceof 900 km; it
Report (issue)
category ........ Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tungsten contained in ore and concentrate—...For each country having a tungsten deposit or district listed in the ISMI tungsten inventory...........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...new mines in Brazil and boosted production in Bolivia, Japan, and Spain. In the 1950’s, during and after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CanadaB3] 2T9 grained,dark gray to black, quartz-topaz-sulfide- Introduction In an earlierpaperKontak(1990a)...Zn)-richquartzveinswhich The depositis hostedby a ca. 370 Ma topaz-musco- formedduringtransientperiodsof hydraulic...idioblasticpyrite cubes in massivewhite quartz-topaz-cassiterite-sulfide greisen,andidioblastic pyrite...gray greisen +6.2 Qtz-topaz-cassosulf greisen Py cubes(<1 cm) in white topaz-richdeformed +5.3 Clear...reflectsa probablemagmaticoriginfor the sulfur (e.g., Chojlla W-Sn depositin Bolvia; Harwood,1985). Thus,a m
Report (issue)
........................................... S16 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ S20 Mine Closure.................................................... S12 Pie chart showing estimated world mine production of tin in 2015, by country and amount...tantalum, tin, tungsten, and (or) gold AMD acid mine drainage ATPC Association of Tin Producing Countries...respectively. In 2015, the world’s total estimated mine production of tin was 289,000 metric tons of contained
Book
Mineralization in the Nigerian Younger Granite Province . . . 51 P. Bowden Tourmalinization in Cornwall...Vokes Hydrothermal Activity in the St Just Mining District, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . N.J...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 VILLALPANDO F.M. VOKES Geologisk Jnstitutt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
central Andean tin belt in the Eastern Cordillera of Bolivia (Fig. 1). The tin belt extends from southern Peru...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...producer of the world and became an important tin mine in the early twentieth century. The cumulated Ag...are two major epochs of tin mineralization in Bolivia. Tin-tungsten mineralization in association with
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................89503 Introduction The Copper Mountain mining district, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, was active from...there has been no production. The major mine in the district, the Jumbo, produced 5000 tons of copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Morocco), the American Cordillera (Peru, Bolivia, New Mexico), the western Pacific margin (Korea...commonly, associated with the main W stage are topaz, fluorite, zinnwaldite, beryl, garnet, K feldspar...Hercynian Western Pacific Castle an Dinas Chicote Chojlla Cinovec Cligga Head Dae Hwa Lake George Hercynian...Caledonian Baid al Jimalah Ballinglen Kaneuchi Province Deposit TABLE 1. Summary of Geologic Data on...wolframite/scheelite ratio decreases with increasing depth in the mine (Shelton et al., 1986). Because the veins are often
Report (issue)
Geologicas Universidad Nacional de La Plata Calle 1, No. 644 1900 La Plata, Argentina SPECI/ml fJJPCB...Tin-bearing granites from the Cordillera Real, Bolivia; A petrological and geochemical review . Waldo...Tertiary granitoids of the Cordillera Real of Bolivia, the Mesozoic and Tertiary granitoids of Peru,...massif (up to 390 ± 15 Ma) occur in western Neuquen province. Some of these are peraluminous, two-mica, microcline-bearing...1 Ma (British Antarctic Survey and Universidad de La Plata, unpublished data). These rocks have an evolved
Book
The Western Tasmanian Tin Province with Special Reference to the Renison Mine IAIN 22 even ham (With).... 2.. South America The Tin Ore Deposits of Bolivia A. Villalpando B. (With 7 Figures) ......6..:...Geochemical Indicators of the Gejiu . 430 Tin Mine and Its Neighbouring Areas Cao) Mianguang (With...Ignimbrite — Related Xiling Tin Deposit in Guangdong Province Lin Guiging (With 11 bigures) 6.6.3 473 China...ee 495 Volcanic Activity in Xiling Mine Area, Guangdong Province, and Its Genetic Relationship with
Report (volume)
Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA With a section on...Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia I by U.S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia; with a section...mineral resources-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental. 3. Geology-Altiplano. 4. Geology-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental...Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1975 [TN39.A4] 557.3s--dc20...cooperation between the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia and the U.S. Geological Survey. The geologic research
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...mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage. The collected...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g.
Journal (issue)
has gained considerable favour in the Hamakna district of Hawaii, the farmers there preferring it to...considerable loss (about 5 •5 per cent.) on ignition. la order to determine whether any improvement in strength...Central Provinces respectively ; in the Eastern Province, instead of one large plantation, smaller ones...at two centres, viz. Appolonia in the Western Province of the Colony, and Northern Ashanti. The rice...establishment of an experimental station in the district, and the propaganda work which has been undertaken
Book
Lower Paleozoic Sediments of the Cordillera Real, Bolivia H.-J. Schneider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 137 The Stratabound Kellhuani Tin Deposits, Bolivia B. Lehmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Stratabound Iron Ores in the Silurian of Argentina and Bolivia M.-A. Boso and C. R. Monaldi . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 The "La Helvecia" Pb, Zn, and Barite Deposit, Argentina A. Brodtkorb
Book
affects its present characteristics as a minera1 province, because of the exposure of the various depth...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...and contains the principal Soviet porphyry Cu-Mo province estimated to represent some 15 Mt Cu and 200 Tt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Tin and TungstenDepositsof the EasternAndes,Bolivia WM. C. KELLY AND F. S. TUR•E^URE Abstract Nu... were applied to ores of the Eastern Andes of Bolivia in order to evaluatetemperatureas one factor in...individual tin and tungsten depositsthroughout Bolivia. The depositscould differ in age, but there is...of mineral se- deposits of the EasternAndesof Bolivia. The pri- quence,the laboratorydataprovideinformationas...determinationson four samplesof the igneousrocks of the province. The Late Triassic period accountsfor the ores
Book
affects its present characteristics as a mineral province, because of the exposure of the various depth...600 . 3 1 100m__ M U IV 11 pp ah ry tsii ac la l dd e a tt iaot ni o n , eh f oyrdmr a •H 4-1...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
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is the minimum grade at which it is worthwhile to mine a certain deposit. Everything below it (low-grade...chalcopyrite (brass) from the Friedrich-Christian Mine in Wildschapbach, Black Forest (Germany) (photo...black Fig. 1.2 Chalcopyrite on quartz. Silberwiese Mine, Oberlahr, Westerwald (Germany) (photo © Monika...CuS (Fig. 1.4). Fig. 1.5 Chalcocite from Mammoth Mine, Mount Isa-Cloncurry Territory (Queensland, Australia)...Introduction Fig. 1.6 Tetrahedrite from Wenzel Mine in Oberwolfach, Black Forest (Germany) (photo ©
Journal (volume)
reassembled in the mine. But it was worth it! They have helped Morton Salt’s Painesville, Ohio, mine to step up...with 7 and 10 mm openings. 68 behind the grate Mine planners forecast a comeback for dredges . . . Experts...have a busy future. In the recently-opened Hamilton Mine, there are 100 million tons of coal to be dug out...around the world. 33 pp, 1968. . : $1.00 Sherman Mine—newest and most modern ore beneficiating and agglomerating... 75 Gravity concentration—C. F. & |.’s Sunrise mine adopts heavymedia for lower grade iron ores. 4 pp
 
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