CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1177 Bolivia (Potosi) 20.59.37 S -- 067.12.36 W Cobrizos 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): Cobrizos
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; veinlets and mantos of chalcocite, covellite, cuprite, malachite and azurite with veinlets of gypsum and carbonates
Geologic province: Altiplano-Cordillera Occidental
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: veinlets; stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Quaternary (host rocks)
Paleogene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Minchin Formation

(2) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks
Host rock stratigraphy:Potoco Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) veinlets and mantos of chalcocite, covellite, cuprite, malachite and azurite with veinlets of gypsum and carbonates; veinlets follow or cut stratification; in places sandstone is cemented by calcite, azurite and iron oxides
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): Uyuni Area (13)

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