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Laurion Mine

Past Producer in Ancash, Peru with commodities Lead, Copper, Silver
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  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. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106192
MRDS ID W031428
Record type Site
Current site name Laurion Mine
Alternate or previous names Lepanto Workings In Quebrada Carhuanca
Related records 10157974

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -77.39531, -9.13048 (WGS84)
Elevation 4145
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 27 KM AT N 45 E OF MARCARA. 24 KM NORTHEAST OF CHANCOS, 7 KM NW OF CHACAS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ancash(province)

Peru(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Peru Ancash

Comments on the location information

  • ON RIDGE NAMED CERRO TOROJIRCA BETWEEN QUEBRADASAPASH AND CARHUANCA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result THE ORE IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE PRESENT CENTURY CONTAINED UP TO 40 % PB, 2 % CU AND 3.3 % AG PER TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -77.39531, -9.13048
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Name LAURION VEIN
    General form TABULAR
    Strike N30-60E
    Dip STEEP
    Thickness 2.5M
    Length 750M
    Width 400M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1677

Mining district

District name Quebrada Honda-Vesuvio Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Empresa Minera Vesuvio

Comments on the production information

  • 1900-1910 (FIRST DECADE OF OPERATION) CONTAINED AS MUCH AS 40% PB, 2%CU, 3.3 KG/TON AG. INACTIVE DEVELOPED PRODUCER

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AFTER 50 YRS OF CONTINUOUS-OPERATIONS ONLY MODERATE AMOUNTS OF LOWER GRADE ORE REMAINS (1948).

Comments on the workings information

  • MINED ON 5 LEVELS BETWEEN 4000 AND 4290 M.

Comments on development

  • DORMANT AND REOPENED JUST BEFORE 1900.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BODENLOS, A.J. AND ERICKSEN, G.E., 1955, LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS OF CORDILLERA BLANCA AND NORTHERN CORDILLERA HAUYUASH, PERU, U.S.G.S. BULL. 1017, 166 P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    BODENLOS AND ERICKSEN (1955).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOCAL EN ECHELON IN SEVERAL SEGMENTS.
Deposit Discovery Year: COLONIAL PERIOD

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-81 Bordine, Donald L. (Ericksen, G.E.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-94 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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