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): Lord De Senes
Longitude / Latitude: -68.45000 / -16.73333
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; stratabound copper mineralization in 5 mantos
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Paleogene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Tiahuanacu Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) stratabound copper mineralization in 5 mantos; mantos 200 m long and 0.4-1.2 m thick
References:
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


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