CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
573 Brazil 30.47.00 S -- 052.24.00 W Camaqua 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): Camaqua
Political location(s): Brazil
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated and as veins in host rocks
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Bom Jardim Group, Arroio Dos Nobres Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated and as veins in host rocks; vein-type ore interpreted as remobilization of disseminated sulphides
References:
Teixeira, G.; Gonzales, M., 1988
Minas do Camaqua, Minicipio de Cacapava Do Sul, RS
in Principais Depositos Minerais do Brasil, Edited by Brazil Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Volume 3: Metais báisocs, não-ferrosos, ouro e aluminio, Brazil Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral (DNPM)/Companhia Vale do Rio Dore(CVRD), Rio de Janeiro : Ministerio das Minas e Energia, 3, 670 p, p. 33 - 41

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1987; 31,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.06 percent
Reference: Schobbenhaus, C.; Coelho, C. E. S. (Editor(s)), 1988: Os Principais Depositos Minerais Do Brasil; Principal Deposits of Brazil, Volume 3, 670 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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