CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1233 Bolivia (La Paz) 17.24.00 S -- 068.21.20 W Copacabana; Copacabana - 1 Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Copacabana; Copacabana - 1
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz; Nearest community: Callapa (8 km N)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in mantos in the huayllamarca fm in the upper plate of the thrust fault
Geologic province: Altiplano/Callapa Area
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: regional thrust (upper plate)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Huayllamarca Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in mantos in the huayllamarca fm in the upper plate of the thrust fault; deposit is localized near n70w-striking thrust fault
References:
Cox, D. P.; Carrasco, R.; André-Tamos, O.; Hinojosa-Velasco, A.; Long, K. R., 1992
Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Rocks
Section Geology of Known Mineral Deposits, in Geology and Mineral Resources of the Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia, Edited by United States Geological Survey; Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Bulletin, U.S. Geological Survey, 1975, 365 p., 8 maps, p. 95 - 108

Long, K. R., 1992
Mines, Prospects, and Mineral Occurrences, Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia
Appendix A, in Geology and Mineral Resources of the Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia, Edited by United States Geological Survey; Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Bulletin, U.S. Geological Survey, 1975, 365 p., 8 maps, p. 244 - 272

Richter, D. H.; Luddington, S.; Soria-Escalante, E., 1992
Geological Setting
in Geology and Mineral Resources of the Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia, Edited by United States Geological Survey; Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Bulletin, U.S. Geological Survey, 1975, 365 p., 8 maps, p. 14 - 24


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