CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
399 Argentina 25.00 S -- 065.15 W Cerro Del Plomo Cu; Pb; Zn
 
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 Del Plomo
Political location(s): Argentina; Nearest community: Rio Juramento
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; primary mineralization cementing dolomitic lmsn
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:limestone (dolomitic)
limestone
sandstone (calcareous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Yacoraite Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) primary mineralization cementing dolomitic lmsn; sulphides crystallized during early diagenetic stage; mean grades are 1.5% Pb/ 1.03% Zn/ 0.94% Cu
References:
Brodtkorb (De), M. K., 1984
Strata-Bound Deposits of Argentina
in Syngenesis and Epigenesis in the Formation of Mineral Deposits, Edited by Wauschkuhn, A.; Kluth, C.; Zimmermann, R. A., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 653 p, p. 92 - 102

Malumian, N., 1983
The Cretaceous of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
in The Phanerozoic Geology of the World, Part 2: The Mesozoic, Edited by Moullade, M.; Nairn, A. E. M., Amsterdam Elsevier, Amsterdam, 450 p, p. 265 - 304


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