Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Maria Elena |
Political location(s): |
Argentina; Province or state: Salta |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; chalcocite, cuprite, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, covellite, native copper, brochantite, malachite, azurite and pitchblende cementing sandstone arkose and conglomerate |
Commodities: |
Cu; U; V |
Geological ages: |
Early Cretaceous (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, cuprite, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, covellite, native copper, brochantite, malachite, azurite and pitchblende cementing sandstone arkose and conglomerate; copper mineralization stratigraphically-controlled lenses in epiclastic succession |
References: |
Sureda, R. J.; Galliski, M. A.; Arganaraz, P.; Daroca, J., 1986 |
Aspetos Metalogenicos Del Noroeste Argentino (Provincias de Salta Y Jujuy) |
Capricornio: Revista Geologica Argentina Para el Tropico Austral, Volume 1, p. 39 - 95 |
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