CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
403 Argentina 38.00 S -- 069.15 W Custodio; Salamanca; San Martin Cu; U; V; Pb; Zn
 
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): Custodio; Salamanca; San Martin
Political location(s): Argentina
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; mineralization cements ss/arkose/conglomerates
Commodities: Cu; U; V; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:sandstone (red)
arkose
conglomerate (immature)
Host rock stratigraphy:Pirgua Subgroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) mineralization cements ss/arkose/conglomerates; 3 of most known deposits which occur in red sediments of Pirgua subgp; metals associated iwth organic matter in continental environment
References:
Brodtkorb (De), M. K., 1984
Strata-Bound Deposits of Argentina
in Syngenesis and Epigenesis in the Formation of Mineral Deposits, Edited by Wauschkuhn, A.; Kluth, C.; Zimmermann, R. A., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 653 p, p. 92 - 102

Malumian, N., 1983
The Cretaceous of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
in The Phanerozoic Geology of the World, Part 2: The Mesozoic, Edited by Moullade, M.; Nairn, A. E. M., Amsterdam Elsevier, Amsterdam, 450 p, p. 265 - 304


Generated 2015-01-27 17:12:55 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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