Luz Angelica-Coco Mine

Producer in La Libertad, Peru with commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold
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. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10065221
MRDS ID TC40325
Record type Site
Current site name Luz Angelica-Coco Mine
Alternate or previous names Veins: Verdun, La Compania, Luz Angelica, La Merced, La Merced No. 2, Coco, Right, Elba

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.33311, -8.00636 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 80 KM EAST OF TRUJILLO.

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

  • SOUTH OF QUIRUVILCA MINE.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Acanthite Ore
Alabandite Ore
Arsenic Ore
Bornite Ore
Boulangerite Ore
Bournonite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Digenite Ore
Electrum Ore
Enargite Ore
Galena Ore
Geocronite Ore
Hessite Ore
Jamesonite Ore
Marcasite Ore
Orpiment Ore
Pyrite Ore
Realgar Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Stannite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Tennantite Ore
Tetradymite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Clinozoisite Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rhodochrosite Gangue

Analytical data

Result BARTOS (1990) GIVES AU, AG, CU, PB, ZN DATA BY BLOCKS FOR COCO VEIN AND LUZ ANGELICA VEIN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.33311, -8.00636

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE, E-W
    Dip N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Quiruvilca District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)

Reference information

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.