Chicote Grande District

Past Producer in La Paz, Bolivia with commodities Tungsten, Tin, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Bismuth, Antimony
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. Geologic structures
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000423
MRDS ID DE00307
Record type District
Current site name Chicote Grande District
Alternate or previous names Chicote Grande Underground Mine, Peripheral Sn Mines, Perfeccionada, Inca Rancho, Taminaui, Bunapatilla, San Jose

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.86198, -17.30877 (WGS84)
Relative position LAT LONG FOR CHICOTE GRANDE MINE ON SW FLANK OF CERRO CHICOTE GRANDE AT 3800 M ELEVATION.

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
Tungsten Critical Primary
Tin Critical Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) SERICITIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.86198, -17.30877

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description UPLIFTED BLOCK OF METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENTS BETWEEN TWO FAULTS ON THE WESTERN AND EASTERN FLANKS OF CERRO CHICOTE GRANDE. DEPOSIT IS ON THE SAME NNW-SSE STRUCTURAL TREND AS THE VERY SIMILAR KAMI AND AMUTARA DEPOSITS. NW-TRENDING CHICOTE ANTICLINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Year of first production 1914
Year of last production 1981

Mining district

District name CHICOTE GRANDE DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner ANSCHUTZ MINING CORP
    Home office DENVER
    First year 1979
  • Type Operator
    Owner EMPRESA MINERA CHURQUINI (CHURQUINI ENTERPRISES, INC.)
    Home office LA PAZ, BOLIVIA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VELASCO, P., 1983, THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF BOLIVIA, IN U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1983, VOL. III, AREA REPORTS: INTERNATIONAL, P. 118.

  • Deposit

    VALENZUELA, S.R., 1979, GEOLOGY OF THE MAIN WOLFRAM MINES IN BOLIVIA (CONTINUED), PRIMARY TUNGSTEN ASSOCIATION, BULLETIN NO. 7, JUNE 1979, P. 6-8.

  • Deposit

    REAGAN, P.H., 1940, BOLIVIA FOR STRATEGIC MINERALS, ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 141, NO. 10, P. 54-58.

  • Deposit

    VELASCO, P., 1982, THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF BOLIVIA, PREPRINT FROM THE 1982 BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, WASHINGTON, D.C., 9 P.

  • Deposit

    WILLIG, C.D. AND DELGADO, J., 1985, SOUTH AMERICA AS A SOURCE OF TUNGSTEN, PRIMARY TUNGSTEN ASSOCIATION, THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, MADRID, SPAIN, 1985, P. 1-36.

  • Deposit

    AHLFELD, F., 1945, THE CHICOTE TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 40, P. 394-407.

  • Deposit

    PACHECO, M., FERNANDEZ, L., BARRIOS, C., ROCHA, R., AND VEDIA, J., 1975, INFORME PRELIMINAR DE INVENTARIACION MINA CHICOTE GRANDE: GEOBOL

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    THORN, PETER G., 1988, FLUID INCLUSION AND STABLE ISOTOPE STUDIES AT THE CHICOTE TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, BOLIVIA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 83, P. 62-68.

  • Deposit

    THORN, PETER, 1988, A TUNGSTEN VEIN DEPOSIT IN BOLIVIA: GEOLOGY TODAY, V. 4, N. 5, P. 176-178.

  • Deposit

    AHLFELD, F., AND SCHNEIDER-SCHERBINA, A., 1964, LOS YACIMIENTOS MINERALES Y DE HIDROCARBUROS DE BOLIVIA: DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA BOLETIN 5, P. 89-93.

Beyond USGS

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