Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Negra Huanusha |
Political location(s): |
Peru; Subprovince or locality: Negra Huanushu |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in red sandstone containing abundant plant remains |
Geologic province: |
Peruvian Andes |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag; V |
Geological ages: |
Permian - Triassic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental deltaic prism-basin-and-range; multiple regimes (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrineIndividual lithologies: | sandstone (arkosic - red) arkose mudstone (red) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Mitu Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in red sandstone containing abundant plant remains; several occurrences in area between towns: La Oroya Junin & Acobamba; 3 types: 1) in bleached red ss 2) in red ss with Fe 3) in ss & lmst above |
References: |
Flint, S. S., 1989 |
Sediment-Hosted Stratabound Copper Deposits of the Central Andes |
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 371 - 398 |
Kobe, H. W., 1960 |
Cu-Ag Deposits of the Red-Bed Type at Negra Huanusha in Central Peru |
Schweizerische Mineralogische Und Petrographische Mitteilungen, Volume 40, p. 163 - 176 |
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