CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1162 Bolivia (La Paz) 17.30.35 S -- 068.19.37 W Esperanza - 2 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): Esperanza - 2
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, malachite and azurite replaces organic matter
Geologic province: Altiplano/Callapa Area
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: replacement
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Coincident features: organic matter
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks
Host rock stratigraphy:Totora Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, malachite and azurite replaces organic matter; in mantos averaging 2 m thick each
References:
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

Associated group(s): Callapa Area (8)

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