CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
480 Chile 23.44.58 S -- 070.30 W Caleta Coloso Cu
 
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): Caleta Coloso
Political location(s): Chile; Nearest community: Antofagasta (10 km S)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; as cement to clasts in bleached conglomerate and ss
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-half-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrine
Individual lithologies:conglomerate (red and grey - coarse)
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Coloso Formation, Way Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as cement to clasts in bleached conglomerate & ss; several deposits/ no evaporites or plant remains present in Coloso fm; proximal to medial alluvial fan deposits-extremely coarse grain size
References:
Espinoza, S. R., 1983
Geologia y Genesis de la Mineralizacion Cuprifera del Sector de Caleta Coloso, al Sur de Antofagasta (Geology and Genesis of Copper Mineralization in the Caleta Coloso, Southern Antofagasta)
Revista Geologia de Chile, Volume 19-20, p. 81 - 91

Flint, S., 1986
Diagenesis of Tertiary Playa Sandstones of Northern Chile - Implications for Andean Uplift and Metallogeny
Sedimentology, Volume 34, p. 11 - 29

Production data: 35,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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150,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: potential resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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