CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
501 Peru 12.13 S -- 075.42.30 W Dona Basilia 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): Dona Basilia
Political location(s): Peru; Nearest community: Yauricocha (15 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Tertiary (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltstone
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Casapalca Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; small and economically unimportant
References:
Boggio, M. S., 1985
Copper
Part 3, Section Metallic Ore Deposits, in Peru: A Mining Country, Edited by Samamé Boggio, M., Volume, INGEMMET, Lima, Perú, Editorial Grafica Pacific Press S. A., Lima, Peru, 4-Pt 1, 352 p, p. 101 - 352

Petersen, U., 1965
Regional Geology and Major Ore Deposits of Central Peru
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 407 - 476


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