CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
245 Chile 32.31 S -- 071.05 W Rusa 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): Rusa
Political location(s): Chile
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in limestone with intercalated andesitic lavas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone (shaly)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in limestone with intercalated andesitic lavas; limestones related to narrow north trending Titonian-Neocomian basin; limestone reef facies formed in mobile marine environment
References:
Munoz, J. O., 1975
On Stratiform Copper Deposits of Chile
Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, Volume 98, p. 17 - 21


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