Esperanza Prospect

Past Producer in Tacna, Peru with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Antimony
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10063914
MRDS ID TC38022
Record type Site
Current site name Esperanza Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -70.06623, -17.63934 (WGS84)
Elevation 3400
Relative position 18-20 KM S OF TARATA, 7.5 KM SE OF CAPALINA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tacna(province)

Peru(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State
Peru Tacna

Comments on the location information

  • ON SW FLANK CERRO CHARE, JUST E OF TACNA-TARATA ROAD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Digenite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Capalina;Junerata
    Rock description Capalina;Junerata

Nearby scientific data

(1) -70.06623, -17.63934

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Two Post Mineral Transverse Faults Displace The Veins 2 M.

Ore body information

  • Name VETA 1
    General form LENSES
    Strike N16E}N16E}N25W
    Dip 80 W}54 W}74 E
    Thickness 1M
    Length 90M
  • Name VETA 2
    General form LENSES
    Strike N16E}N16E}N25W
    Dip 80 W}54 W}74 E
    Thickness 2M
    Length 60M
  • Name VETA 3
    General form LENSES
    Strike N16E}N16E}N25W
    Dip 80 W}54 W}74 E
    Thickness 0.8M
    Length 100M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cerro Chare Area

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Sologuren, Wilson

Comments on the production information

  • ESTIMATED TO BE 200 MT CONCENTRATED BY HAND. INACTIVE LITTLE DEVELOPED PRODUCER.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • VETA 2 IS 70 M LONG, 25 M WIDE, 1.2 M THICK YIELDS 5.3 THOUSAND MT.

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT, ADITS, ABOUT 800 M TOTAL WORKINGS, AVERAGE GRADE OVER 1 M SAMPLE IS 2.7% CU. THE CONCESSION IS 96 HECTARES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1959, PLAN PARA EL DESAROLLO DEL SUR DEL PERU, V.2, INFORME PS/A/5 LOS RECURSOS MINERALES: LIMA, USAID, P. 150.

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, F., 1960, THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERU: USGS, UNPUBLISHED M.S., P. 885.

  • Deposit

    VARGAS, A.; 1972. ESTUDIO GEOLOGICO MINERO DE LA UNIDAD CAPLINA-TACNA: SERVICIO DE GEOLOGIA Y MINERIA, COD.B5011.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    VARGAS (1972)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SILICIFIED STRUCTURE OUTCROPS FOR 200M ALONG STRIKE IS 10M WIDE. CONTAINS QUARTZ VEIN 2-3 CM WIDE IN BRECCIATED ZONE 2 M WIDE. 400 M TO S IS A QUARTZ VEIN 4-10 CM WIDE ORIENTED N-S 85W. ORE BODY 0: OUTCROPS IN WEST. ORE BODY 1: OUTCROPS IN THE HIGHER PART OF THE AREA. THE MAJOR PART OF PRODUCTION CAME FROM THIS VEIN. ORE BODY 2: OUTCROPS IN SW OF THE AREA, GRADES ARE LOW.
Deposit SEE RECORD NUMBER TAC0070.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1991 Long, K.R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1993 Restrepo, P.A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1994 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.