CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
10 Bolivia 18.10.00 S -- 068.15.00 W Turco Area 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 group name(s): Turco Area
Political location(s): Bolivia
Deposit clan (type): mixed sediment-hosted and volcanic-associated copper
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Related igneous rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (flows or sills); Initials: Azurita Formation
References:
Cox, D. P.; Carrasco, R.; André-Tamos, O.; Hinojosa-Velasco, A.; Long, K. R., 1992
Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Rocks
Section Geology of Known Mineral Deposits, 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. 95 - 108

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

Richter, D. H.; Luddington, S.; Soria-Escalante, E., 1992
Geological Setting
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. 14 - 24

Associated deposit(s): Azurita (1000), Cuprita (1001), Santa Clara (1049), Corona de España (1050), Chihuirari (1051)

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