CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1065 Bolivia (Potosi) 21.34.32 S -- 067.25.00 W Farellón; Farellon 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): Farellón; Farellon
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; mantos of sandstone cemented by calcite, malachite and azurite are cut by fractures filled with chalcocite, azurite, malachite, tenorite, cuprite, hematite and manganese oxides
Geologic province: Altiplano-Cordillera Occidental
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Eocene - Oligocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: regional thrust (west flank of a thrusted block of Ordovician metasediments)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (arkosic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Potoco Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) mantos of sandstone cemented by calcite, malachite and azurite are cut by fractures filled with chalcocite, azurite, malachite, tenorite, cuprite, hematite and manganese oxides
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

Production data: Report period: from 1969; 5 metric ton concentrate; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: M
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 35 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Associated mine(s): Farellón Mine (74)
Associated group(s): Serrania de las Minas Area (15)

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