Locality
76°14´42" west longitude, 5°35´12" north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Alto Condoto, Provinz Chocó, West-Columbia, Südamerika

Historical relevance of location
The Chocó in Colombia is the first place in the world, where the natural occurrence of platinum was observed and documented.

Geological relevance of location
The Alto Condotó Mountain hosts the world\'s youngest intrusion of magmas in zonal arrangement and is an important place of origin of the placer platinum in Chocó.

Classification of the earth

Structure	Platinum-bearing host rock of Alto Condoto, milled
Age	20 Million years

Donor

Dr. Klaus-Peter Burgath,
 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Hannover,
 Germany