Potosi
Producer
Aguilar Mine
Potosi, Bolivia
Copper
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Description
Peasant Miner
Commodities
Primary
Copper
Commodity type
M
Deposit
Deposit type
Stratabound
Model
197: Sediment-hosted Cu
Deposit size
S
Workings
Underground
Orebody form
LENTICULAR
Ore control
Preferred Bed Under Impermeable Shale Horizon
Materials
Ore minerals
Bornite, Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Malachite
Geology
Host rock
Sandstone · Quehua Inferior
Structure
Aguilar Anticline
Economic & production
Development status
Producer
First production
1967
Discovery year
1967
Identification
Deposit ID
10005881
MRDS ID
BL10058
Region
SA
Data score
B
Coordinates
-21.64894, -67.15058
References
SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA, 1971, MINA AGUILAR: PROYECTO COMIBOL-LIPEZ-70 INFORME GE-30, 14P., MAPS 1:2,000; 1:500GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS BY GEOBOL (1971)VISITED BY GEOBOL/USGS PERSONNEL 1990CIMRI