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): |
San Bartolo |
Political location(s): |
Chile; Nearest community: San Pedro (20 km N) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; as matrix in arkose replacing earlier cements |
Geologic province: |
Andean Cordilleran Orogen |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag |
Geological ages: |
Oligocene - Miocene (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental rift-half-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marineIndividual lithologies: | mudstone (red) sandstone (grey) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Pacencia Group, Artolla Member |
(2) sedimentary; evaporiteIndividual lithologies: | anhydrite |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as matrix in arkose replacing earlier cements; several deposits in area hosted by sheet and ribbon sandstone bodies; host rx deposited in high energy playa-marginal sandflat environment |
References: |
Flint, S., 1985 |
Alluvial Fan and Playa Sedimentation in an Andean Arid Closed Basin: the Pacencia Group Antofagasta Province, Chile |
Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 142, p. 533 - 546 |
Flint, S., 1986 |
Sedimentary and Diagenetic Controls on Red Bed Ore Genesis: the Mid Tertiary San Bartolo Copper Deposit Antofagasta Province, Chile |
Economic Geology, Volume 81, p. 761 - 788 |
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 |
Munoz, J. O., 1975 |
On Stratiform Copper Deposits of Chile |
Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, Volume 98, p. 17 - 21 |
Ruiz, C. F., 1965 |
Geologia y Yacimientos Metaliferos de Chile |
Instituto de Investigaciones Geologicas (Chile). |
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Resource data: |
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported. |
1,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: combinedGrade-commodity information: | Cu: 2 percent | Reference: Anonymous, 1992: Campania Minera Polimet S. A.; Company Report Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |