CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1202 Bolivia (La Paz) 17.35.00 S -- 068.12.00 W El Congreso 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): El Congreso
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz; Nearest community: Callapa (19 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite in three mantos, locally forms psuedomorphous replacements of gypsum
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic district: Chacarilla District
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Tertiary (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: diapirs (adjacent to large gypsum and shale diapir ) Tectonic structure name: Chuquichambi Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite in three mantos, locally forms psuedomorphous replacements of gypsum; near the axis of diapir on the northwest side
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 group(s): Chacarilla Area (9)

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