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): Vatutin
Longitude / Latitude: -68.88750 / -16.60833
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Oruro; Nearest community: Jankomarca - Ana Amria
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; malachite and azurite occur in lenses 50 cm thick
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Tertiary (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Coincident features: organic matter (fossil plants)
Regional tectonic structure: anticlinorium
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Huayllamarca Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) malachite and azurite occur in lenses 50 cm thick; lenses - 50 cm thick containing plant fossils
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 mine(s): Vatutin Mine (9)

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