CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
243 Chile 27.45.30 S -- 070.11.30 W Jardin Cu; Ag
 
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): Jardin
Political location(s): Chile; Nearest community: Copiapo
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in ignimbrites and tuffaceous sedimentary horizons
Geologic province: Central Andes
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Paleocene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; unclassified volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:tuff
Host rock stratigraphy:Hornitos Formation

(2) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:volcanogenic breccia

(3) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:shale (carbonaceous)
siltstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in ignimbrites & tuffaceous sedimentary horizons; mine produced at 100 t/ day rate for many years/ no total prod figures; Cu/Ag dissem in uppermost 1-2m of flow & 2-3m of overlying sed rocks
References:
Lortie, R. B., 1974
Stratabound Fumarolic Copper Deposits in Rhyolitic Lavas and Ash-Flow Tuffs, Copiapo District, Atacama, Chile
in Problems of Ore Deposition, Edited by Bogdanov, B., Volume, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), Bulgarska akademiia na naukite, BAN, Sofiia , 1, 331 p, p. 256 - 264

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1974; 1,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Ag: 100 grams/metric ton
As: 1 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1974: Conference on Exp Min Pet and Economic Geology, February 1974; Conference Report
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


2,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: maximum original reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.75 percent
Ag: 140 grams/metric ton
Reference: Bogdanov, B. D. (Editor(s)), 1974: Problems of Ore Deposition : Fourth Symposium of the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Varna, 1974; Volume, Sofia; Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1, 332 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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