Huarón Mining District
The Huarón Mining District is one of the richest polymetallic (Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu-(Au)) deposit clusters in Peru. It is located 20 km SSW of Cerro de Pasco, in the Huayllay District, Pasco Province, Pasco Department, between 4500 and 4700 m.a.s.l. The Huarón Mining District belongs to the Miocene polymetallic belt of the Central Andes. Hydrothermal mineralization occurs as predominantly in N-S to NNW-SSW and E-W veins as well as in "mantos" replacing favorable sedimentary rock. Epithermal hydrothermal fluids are thought to be derived from quartz-monzonitic intrusions tentatively dated at 7.4 Ma (K-Ar on adularia). The most important economic minerals are tennantite‐tetrahedrite (containing most of the silver), sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite. Silver is also found in pyrargyrite, proustite, polybasite, and pearceite. In the central copper core of the Huarón deposit, enargite occurs. Main gangue minerals are pyrite, quartz, rhodochrosite, and calcite.
Q90494947
Huarón Mining District
UNK
Q674320
Cerro de Pasco
LOC
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Huayllay District
LOC
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Pasco Province
LOC
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Pasco Department
LOC
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m.a.s.l.
Concept
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Huarón Mining District
UNK
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adularia
Concept
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mineral
Concept
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tennantite
Concept
Q424282
tetrahedrite
Concept
Q105006
sphalerite
Concept
Q37559
galena
Concept
Q111044
chalcopyrite
Concept
Q118134
pyrargyrite
Concept
Q411817
proustite
Concept
Q415785
polybasite
Concept
Q2739180
pearceite
UNK
Q411881
enargite
Concept
Q1061670
gangue
Concept
Q7946
mineral
Concept
Q50769
pyrite
Concept
Q43010
quartz
Concept
Q409793
rhodochrosite
Concept
Q171917
calcite
Concept
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located in the administrative territorial entity
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