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): Corona de España; Corona de Espana
Longitude / Latitude: -68.15000 / -18.12500
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Oruro; Nearest community: Turco (5 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; small nodules, dendrites and lenses of native copper in about five mantos
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
tuff
Host rock stratigraphy:Turco Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) small nodules, dendrites and lenses of native copper in about five mantos; five to six mantos 10 to 38 m long and 0.2 to 1 m thick in sandstone and tuff
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

Resource data:
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4,200 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve ?
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.25 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): Corona de España Mine (61)

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