CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
16 Bolivia 21.40.00 S -- 067.08.00 W Avaroa Area 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 group name(s): Avaroa Area
Political location(s): Bolivia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Oligocene - Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; Formal name: Altiplano (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: unconformity (beneath unconformity with a younger tuff)
regional folding (north-trending anticlines and synclines)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Quehua Formation
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

Associated deposit(s): Avaroa (1002), Bolívar (1069), Mantos Blancos (1070), El Morro (1071), Linares (1072), Cerro Negro (1073), Aguilar (1074), Alianza (1075), Sucre (1076), Estela (1179), Loa (1180)

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