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Cerro Rico de Potosi
Bolivia
Main commodities: Sn Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2000.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Cerro Rico de Potosi

    Selected References
Bartos, P.J.,  2000 - The Pallacos of Cerro Rico de Potosi, Bolivia: a new deposit type: in    Econ. Geol.   v.95, pp. 645-654.
Cunningham, C.G., Zartman, R.E., McKee, E.H., Rye, R.O., Naeser, C.W., Sanjines, O.V., Ericksen, G.E. and Tavera, F.V.,  1996 - The age and thermal history of Cerro Rico de Potosi, Bolivia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.31, pp. 374 - 385.
Dietrich, A., Lehmann, B. and Wallianos, A.,  2000 - Bulk rock and melt inclusion geochemistry of Bolivian Tin Porphyry systems: in    Econ. Geol.   v.95, pp. 313-326.
Kamenov, G., Macfarlane, A.W. and Riciputi, L.,  2002 - Sources of Lead in the San Cristobal, Pulacayo, and Potosi Mining districts, Bolivia, and a re-evaluation of regional ore Lead isotope provinces: in    Econ. Geol.   v.97, pp. 573-592.
Rice, C.M., Steele, G.B., Barfod, D.N., Boyce, A.J. and Pringle, M.S.,  2005 - Duration of Magmatic, Hydrothermal, and Supergene Activity at Cerro Rico de Potosi, Bolivia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.100, pp. 1647-1656.


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