Abstract
THE Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Minas del Peru cont:nues to issue actively its valuable bulletins on mining areas. In No. 58 (1908) Mr. A. Jochamowitz reviews the minera,l resources of the somewhat remote department of Apurimac, in the mountains south-east of Lima, where the rivers run northward along the ranges to join the great flow of the Amazon. The level lands are mainly devoted to the cultivation of sugar-cane for the production of alcohol; but alluvial gold-areas exist, and gold occurs in decomposed ferruginous zones among the prevalent stratified quartzites. Portuguese miners in old days appear to have secured most of the spoil that could be readily obtained.
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C., G. The Mineral Survey of Peru . Nature 84, 217–218 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084217a0
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