CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1176 Bolivia (Oruro) 17.54.17 S -- 067.54.38 W Chuquichambi 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): Chuquichambi
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Oruro
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite and lesser chalcopyrite, partly oxidized to azurite and malachite that replace calcite cement
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: anticline (Chuquichambi Formation in core and Huayllamarca Formation in mantle)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Huayllamarca Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite and lesser chalcopyrite, partly oxidized to azurite and malachite that replace calcite cement
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

Associated group(s): Chuquichambi Area (11)

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