Parama

Producer in Argentina with commodities Gold, Platinum, Iridium, Osmium, Palladium, Rhodium

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10039038
MRDS ID	M046561
Record type	Site
Current site name	Parama
Alternate or previous names	El Paramo

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-68.21589, -53.14809 (WGS84)
Relative position	NEAR CAPE SAN SEBASTIAN, ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Argentina(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Argentina

Comments on the location information

LATITUDE-LONGITUDE VALUES FROM NIMA'S GEONAMES DATABASE ARE FOR PUNTA DE ARENAS PER POSITION FROM NEAREST PROMINENT LOCALITY FIELD (APPROXIMATELY 20 MILES NORTH OF CAPE SAN SEBASTIAN)

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Gold	Primary
Platinum Critical	Primary
Iridium Critical	Secondary
Osmium	Secondary
Palladium Critical	Secondary
Rhodium Critical	Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

PT NUGGETS UP TO .54 OZ WT.

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Gold	Ore

Analytical data

Result	ONE ANALYSIS GAVE: 79.15% PT, 3% IR, 1.08% IR + OS, .4% RH, .8% PD, 6.96% FE, (KYLE 1850)

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-68.21589, -53.14809	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Producer
Commodity type	Metallic
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Tierra Del Fuego

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	M046561

Bibliographic references

Deposit

QUIRING, 1962, DIE METALLISCHEN ROHSTOFFE: PLATINMETALLE ENKE VERLAG STUTTGART, P. 111

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.