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): Cerro Pusimujuna
Longitude / Latitude: -68.45944 / -16.78056
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Paleogene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks
Host rock stratigraphy:Tiahuanacu Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) manto 50 m long and 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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