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): |
Chacoma Area |
Political location(s): |
Bolivia; Nearest community: Viacha (15 km W) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Geologic province: |
Altiplano |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Tertiary (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental basin-foreland (host rocks) |
Coincident features: |
organic matter (fossil plants) |
Regional tectonic structure: |
anticlinorium |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerateHost rock stratigraphy: | Tiahuanacu 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): |
Chacoma (1012), Las Mercedes (1013), Lord De Senes (1147), Cerro Tancaloma (1148), Koniri (1149), Cerro Pusimujuna (1150), Cutuna (1152), Iquiri (1153), San Simon I (1154) |