CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
400 Argentina 30.50 S -- 064.40 W Canada De Alvarez 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): Canada De Alvarez
Political location(s): Argentina
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; primary chalcocite in limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) primary chalcocite in limestone; restricted marine environment with possible stromatolite participation; Cu in several levels (few m long) composed of concordant parallel beds
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


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