CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
8 Bolivia 17.30.00 S -- 068.20.00 W Callapa 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): Callapa Area
Political location(s): Bolivia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic subprovince: Ulloma Domain
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Miocene (host rocks)
Middle Tertiary (host rocks)
Middle Miocene - Late Mesozoic (host rocks)
Late Oligocene - Early Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: uplift (complex)
diapirs (small diapirs of gypsum and shale)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Huayllamarca Formation

(2) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Totora Formation

(3) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:gypsum
shale
marl
Host rock stratigraphy:Jalluma 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

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): El Hogar (1041), Noé (La Explotada) (1042), San Agustin (1043), San Francisco (1044), San Miguel (1045), Dinamita (1157), Jayuma (1158), Santiago (1159), El Carmen (1160), 16 De Julio (1161), Esperanza - 2 (1162), Chiguana (1163), Copacabana - 3 (1164), Micaya (1165), Tolamarca (1166), Copacabana - 4 (1167), Ancojaira (1168), Copacabana - 5 (1169), Trinidad (1234), Gran Poder (1235), Pucara (1236), Exploradora (1237), Carmen (1238), Pinquillani (1239), Cachu (1240), Clara Rosa (1241), Portachuro (1242)

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