Quimsa Chata District

Producer in La Paz, Bolivia with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Arsenic, Copper, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000160
MRDS ID BL00017
Record type District
Current site name Quimsa Chata District
Alternate or previous names Tiwanaku District, Caracollo, Carmen, Granada, Nasa Poke, Omonima, San Bartolome, San Carlos, Santa Rosa

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -68.65782, -16.63099 (WGS84)
Relative position ON CERRO QUIMSA CHATA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(province)

Bolivia(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Bolivia La Paz

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Gold Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) SERICITIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -68.65782, -16.63099

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discoverer Spanish Colonists

Mining district

District name QUIMSA CHATA DISTRICT
District name TIWANAKU DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner ROBERTO SANCHEZ B.
  • Type Operator
    Owner AUSTRABOL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REDWOOD, S.D., AND MACINTYRE, R.M., 1989, K-AR DATING OF MIOCENE MAGMATISM AND RELATED EPITHERMAL MINERALIZATION OF THE NORTHEASTERN ALTIPLANO OF BOLIVIA: ECON. GEOL., V. 84, P. 618-630.

  • Deposit

    REDWOOD, STEWART D., 1986, EPITHERMA; PRECIOUS AND BASE METAL MINERALIZATION AND RELATED MAGMATISM OF THE NORTHERN ALTIPLANO OF BOLIVIA: UNPUBLISHED PHD DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, 229P.

  • Deposit

    ACLAND, 1989, GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN QUIMSA CHATA AND SERRNANIAS CHILLA, SOUTH OF TIWANAKU, BOLIVIA: UNPUBLISHED BSC THESIS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND

  • Deposit

    PATON, 1989, GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN QUIMSA CHATA AND SERRANIA CHILLA, SOUTH OF TIWANAKU, BOLIVIA: UNPUBLISHED BSC THESIS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND

  • Deposit

    CORDERO, G., 1966, METALOGENESIS DEL STOCK QUIMSA CHATA: SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA INFORME LP-23, 20P.

  • Deposit

    SCHNEIDER-SCHERBINA, A., 1961, INFORME SOBRE LAS INVESTIGACIONES PRELIMINARES DE LAS OCURRENCIAS DE MINERALES POLIMETALICOS ARGENTIFEROS EN EL MACIZO DE QUIMSACHATA: GERMAN GEOLOGICAL MISSION TO BOLIVIA REPORT 20, 15P.

  • Deposit

    GUSTAVSON ASSOC., 1992, COMPENDIUM OF THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF BOLIVIA

  • Deposit

    LOPEZ, R., 1989, MINTEC INTERNAL REPORT

Beyond USGS

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