CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Guallatiri
Longitude / Latitude: -68.45111 / -17.16917
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz; Subprovince or locality: Corocoro District
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, minor galena and sphalerite replacing cement and organic matter in red sandstone of caquiaviri fm; and native copper filling pores and fractures in sandstone of ballivian fm
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic subprovince: Ulloma Domain
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Eocene - Late Oligocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Coincident features: stratigraphic unconformity (Vetas and Ballivian formations)
Regional tectonic structure: diapirs (large diapir of gypsum and shale)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Caquiaviri (Vetas) Formation

(2) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:lutite (red)
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Ballivian (Ramos) Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, minor galena and sphalerite replacing cement and organic matter in red sandstone of Caquiaviri fm; and native copper filling pores and fractures in sandstone of Ballivian fm
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

Associated mine(s): Guallitiri Mine (26)

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