CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
244 Chile 32.30 S -- 071.00 W Carmen 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): Carmen
Political location(s): Chile; Nearest community: Santiago (110 km NNW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in bed of finely laminated limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in bed of finely laminated limestone; mineralization restricted to lower 2m of black marine limestone; limestone is greyish black due to presence of abundant organic matter
References:
Ruiz, C.; Aguilar, A.; Egert, E.; Espinosa, W.; Peebles, F.; Quezada, R.; Serrano, M., 1971
Strata-Bound Copper Sulphide Deposits of Chile
in Papers and Proceedings of the Seventh General IMA-IAGOD Meeting, Tokyo-Kyoto, 27 August-2 September, 1970, Edited by Takeuchi, Y.; Tatsumi, T.; Takenouchi, S.; Miyazawa, T.; Kanehira, K.; Sekine, Y.; Kato, A.; Fuji, T.; Isihara, S., Special Issue, Society of Mining Geologists of Japan, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), Mining Geology, 3, 500 p, p. 252 - 260


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