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THE JULCANI DISTRICT
Angaraes Province Huancavelica Department
LOCATION and HISTORY
The Julcani district is located about 65 km by road southeast of the city of Huancavelica, at an elevation of 4,200 meters. The district has been mined discontinuously since Spanish colonial times. Serious mining has been conducted since about 1907, and large-scale mining commenced in 1936. The present operator is Alberto Benavides Q., who founded the Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A. in 1953. Julcani is one of Peru's largest producers of silver and bismuth.
GEOLOGY
Goodell and Petersen (1974) and Petersen et al. (1977) have described the ...