CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
481 Argentina (Northwest) 26.30 S -- 066.00 W Yasyamayo 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): Yasyamayo
Political location(s): Argentina; Province or state: Northwest
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; lenticular orebodies in friable grey ss and cglm
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Miocene - Pliocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental deltaic prism-basin-and-range; transtensive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerate; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrine
Individual lithologies:sandstone (red and grey)
mudstone
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Las Arcas Formation, Santa Maria Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) lenticular orebodies in friable grey ss & cglm; fm interpreted as fluvial sequence/no organic remains or evaporites; Cu deposits occur at two major horizons confined to lower member of fm
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

Villaneueva, G. A.; Carrion, M. H.; Gozalvez, E.; Strecker, M., 1985
Manifestaciones de Cobre Nativo y Minerales Oxidados de Cobre En Sedimentitas de la Formacion Las Arcas (Grupo Santa Maria), Departamento Tafi, Tucuman, Argentina
in Actas IV Congresso Geologico Chileno, Antofagasta, Chile, August 1985, Edited by Arias, F. J.; Campano, B. P.; Espinoza, R. S., Volume, Universidad del Norte Chile, Departamento de Geosciencias, Facultad de Ciencias, 2, p. 3.417 - 3.434


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