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): Huancané; Huancane
Longitude / Latitude: -66.53861 / -21.43611
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: Cerrillos (6 km WSW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, native copper, cuprite, tenorite and copper carbonates occur disseminated in mantos
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement; disseminations
Geological ages: Eocene - Oligocene (host rocks)
Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: regional folding (north-trending anticline and syncline)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Potoco Formation

(2) sedimentary; conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:San Vicente Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, native copper, cuprite, tenorite and copper carbonates occur disseminated in mantos; mantos 30 m long, strike 348 and dip 20 degrees E
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

Production data: Report period: from 1969; 5 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 15 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Associated mine(s): Huancané Mine (71)

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