CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1048 Bolivia (Oruro) 17.50.55 S -- 067.56.51 W Huayllamarca; Santa Maria 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): Huayllamarca; Santa Maria
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Oruro; Subprovince or locality: Serrania de Huaylla Marca - east flank; Nearest community: Huaylla Marca
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; mantos contain azurite and malachite; copper minerals also occur in a vein striking n12e and dip 49nw
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: anticlinorium (Chuquichambi Formation in core and Huayllamarca Formation in mantle)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks
Host rock stratigraphy:Huayllamarca Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) mantos contain azurite and malachite; copper minerals also occur in a vein striking 192 degrees and dip 49 NW; mantos strike 122-125 and dip 40-50 degrees SW; gypsum beds of the Chuquichambi formation occur to the east
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

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): Santa María Prospect (58)
Associated group(s): Chuquichambi Area (11)

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