CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Copacabana; Huallpa Coya
Longitude / Latitude: -67.44944 / -21.69167
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: Mallcu Cueva (12 km N)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; mantos of veinlets of malachite and chrysocolla and veins of chalcocite, bornite, malachite and chrysocolla
Geologic province: Altiplano-Cordillera Occidental
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement; vein(s)
Geological ages: Late Oligocene - Middle Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: regional thrust (west flank of a thrusted block of Ordovician metasediments)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate (sandy)
Host rock stratigraphy:San Vicente Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) mantos of veinlets of malachite and chrysocolla and veins of chalcocite, bornite, malachite and chrysocolla; mantos 0.1 -1 m thick; veins 0.05 -0.15 m wide
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


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