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 group name(s): |
Callapa Area |
Political location(s): |
Bolivia |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Geologic province: |
Altiplano |
Geologic subprovince: |
Ulloma Domain |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Miocene (host rocks) Middle Tertiary (host rocks) Middle Miocene - Late Mesozoic (host rocks) Late Oligocene - Early Miocene (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental basin-foreland (host rocks) |
Regional tectonic structure: |
uplift (complex) diapirs (small diapirs of gypsum and shale) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerateHost rock stratigraphy: | Huayllamarca Formation |
(2) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstoneHost rock stratigraphy: | Totora Formation |
(3) sedimentary; evaporiteIndividual lithologies: | gypsum shale marl | Host rock stratigraphy: | Jalluma Formation |
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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 |
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 |
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Associated deposit(s): |
El Hogar (1041), Noé (La Explotada) (1042), San Agustin (1043), San Francisco (1044), San Miguel (1045), Dinamita (1157), Jayuma (1158), Santiago (1159), El Carmen (1160), 16 De Julio (1161), Esperanza - 2 (1162), Chiguana (1163), Copacabana - 3 (1164), Micaya (1165), Tolamarca (1166), Copacabana - 4 (1167), Ancojaira (1168), Copacabana - 5 (1169), Trinidad (1234), Gran Poder (1235), Pucara (1236), Exploradora (1237), Carmen (1238), Pinquillani (1239), Cachu (1240), Clara Rosa (1241), Portachuro (1242) |