La Lima-San Marcos

Past Producer in La Libertad, Peru with commodities Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105298
MRDS ID TC38637
Record type Site
Current site name La Lima-San Marcos

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -77.65532, -7.66638 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Libertad(province)

Peru(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Peru La Libertad

Comments on the location information

  • SAN PABLO IS THE NEAREST LOCALITY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Electrum Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GOLD GRAINS (32 GRAINS): 61.98-89.44 WEIGHT % AU
Result 10.50-37.97 WIEGHT % AG
Result 0.0-0.19 WEIGHT % CU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Pataz Batholith
    Rock description Pataz Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -77.65532, -7.66638

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N45E
    Dip 30-70E

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pataz Region

Comments on the production information

  • INACTIVE DEVELOPED PRODUCER.

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 17 LEVELS OVER 710 M.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: MINES ABANDONED AND CAVED AS OF 1980.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LA LIMA AND SAN MARCOS PROBABLY SAME DEPOSIT OFFSET BY 150 M ON FAULT, THREE MAJOR LODES, SEVERAL OTHER MINOR LODES; SCHREIBER AND OTHERS (1990) HAVE A N-S CROSS-SECTION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1993 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1994 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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