CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Estela
Longitude / Latitude: -67.32778 / -21.82500
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks
Host rock stratigraphy:Upper Quehua Formation
References:
Long, K. R., 1992
Mines, Prospects, and Mineral Occurrences, Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia
Appendix A, in Geology and Mineral Resources of the Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia, Edited by United States Geological Survey; Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Bulletin, U.S. Geological Survey, 1975, 365 p., 8 maps, p. 244 - 272


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