CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
301 Bolivia 17.02.27 S -- 068.29.21 W Pisakheri; Pisaqueri; Anaconda; Violeta 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): Pisakheri; Pisaqueri; Anaconda; Violeta
Political location(s): Bolivia; Nearest community: Corocoro (10.5 km N)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; native cu as nodules replacing cement of sandstone
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic subprovince: Ulloma Domain
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Eocene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (bleached - friable)
Host rock stratigraphy:Ballivian Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) native Cu as nodules replacing cement of sandstone; mine mostly developed on NW flank of faulted Corocoro anticline; native Cu nodules 5-20 mm in diameter/ ss between nodules is quite barren
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

Ljunggren, P., 1964
The Copper Mineralization in the Corocoro Basin, Bolivia
Economic Geology, Volume 59, p. 110 - 125

Long, K. R., 1992
Mines, Prospects, and Mineral Occurrences, Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia
Appendix A, 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. 244 - 272

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

Associated mine(s): Pisaqueri (Anaconda) Mine (1)
Associated group(s): Corocoro Area (4)

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