CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1183 Argentina (Salta) 25.48.00 S -- 065.42 W Maria Elena Cu; U; 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): Maria Elena
Political location(s): Argentina; Province or state: Salta
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, cuprite, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, covellite, native copper, brochantite, malachite, azurite and pitchblende cementing sandstone arkose and conglomerate
Commodities: Cu; U; V
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, cuprite, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, covellite, native copper, brochantite, malachite, azurite and pitchblende cementing sandstone arkose and conglomerate; copper mineralization stratigraphically-controlled lenses in epiclastic succession
References:
Sureda, R. J.; Galliski, M. A.; Arganaraz, P.; Daroca, J., 1986
Aspetos Metalogenicos Del Noroeste Argentino (Provincias de Salta Y Jujuy)
Capricornio: Revista Geologica Argentina Para el Tropico Austral, Volume 1, p. 39 - 95


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