Lavaderos Beach

Producer in Chile with commodities Gold, Platinum, Iridium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039032
MRDS ID M046551
Record type Site
Current site name Lavaderos Beach

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.28285, -47.98119 (WGS84)
Relative position ON THE BEACH OF THE SOUTHWEST - MOST CORNER OF CHILOE ISLAND

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chile(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Chile

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Primary
Iridium Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PLATINUM IN THIN FLAKY SCALES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Garnet Ore
Hematite Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result ANALYSIS OF PT METALS = 10% IR

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.28285, -47.98119

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.02M
    Length 250M
    Width 25M
    Depth to top 0.05M

Comments on the geologic information

  • HR.AGE.MV: BLACK SANDS - BEACH SANDS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Chiloe Island

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MELLA, 1921, BLACK SAND DEPOSITS ON THE ISLAND OF CHILOE: ENG. MIN. JOUR. V. III, NO. 12, P. 498, 501

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1976 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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