CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
247 Chile 22.44 S -- 068.14 W San Bartolo 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): 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 marine
Individual lithologies:mudstone (red)
sandstone (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Pacencia Group, Artolla Member

(2) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:anhydrite
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).

Resource data:
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1,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: combined
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1992: Campania Minera Polimet S. A.; Company Report
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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