CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
299 Peru 11.18 S -- 075.51 W Negra Huanusha Cu; Ag; V
 
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): Negra Huanusha
Political location(s): Peru; Subprovince or locality: Negra Huanushu
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in red sandstone containing abundant plant remains
Geologic province: Peruvian Andes
Commodities: Cu; Ag; V
Geological ages: Permian - Triassic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental deltaic prism-basin-and-range; multiple regimes (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrine
Individual lithologies:sandstone (arkosic - red)
arkose
mudstone (red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Mitu Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in red sandstone containing abundant plant remains; several occurrences in area between towns: La Oroya Junin & Acobamba; 3 types: 1) in bleached red ss 2) in red ss with Fe 3) in ss & lmst above
References:
Flint, S. S., 1989
Sediment-Hosted Stratabound Copper Deposits of the Central Andes
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 371 - 398

Kobe, H. W., 1960
Cu-Ag Deposits of the Red-Bed Type at Negra Huanusha in Central Peru
Schweizerische Mineralogische Und Petrographische Mitteilungen, Volume 40, p. 163 - 176


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