CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1055 Bolivia (Potosi) 21.11.30 S -- 067.09.15 W Koholpani 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): Koholpani
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: Culpina (35 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, malachite and azurite occur in a manto
Geologic province: Cordillera Occidental/Uyuni Area
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Oligocene - Middle Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate (calcareous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Quehua Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, malachite and azurite occur in a manto; a manto 20 to 90 cm thick in calcareous conglomerate
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): Koholpani Mine (65)
Associated group(s): Uyuni Area (13)

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