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Vanadium mine in Pasco, Peru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Minas Ragra was a large vanadium mine in the Pasco Region of Peru. The deposit was discovered by a United States Geological Survey expedition on November 20. 1905.[1] Members of this expeditions were Donnel Foster Hewett and José J. Bravo In this deposit the mineral patrónite was first discovered by a member of the expedition Antenor Rizo-Patron.[2] A mine was established in very short time by the Vanadium Corporation of America. By 1914 75% of the world vanadium ore production was coming from the Minas Ragra in Peru, making the mine the world leading producer of vanadium.[3] With the production of vanadium as side product of uranium mining from carnotite the mine had to close in 1955.

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  • Lluis Fontbote; G. Christian Amstutz; Miguel Cardozo; Esteban Cedillo; Jose Frutos (27 November 2013). Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 595. ISBN 978-3-642-88282-1.
  • Trefzger, Erwin F. (1951). "Vanadium lagerstätte Mina Ragra in Peru". Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg I. Br (in German). DWI.
  • Phillip Maxwell Busch (1961). Vanadium: A Materials Survey. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines.
  • "The Story of Mina Ragra". Engineering and Mining Journal. McGraw Hill Publishing Company: 59. January 1947.
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