CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
5 Bolivia 17.15.00 S -- 068.30.00 W Corocoro District; Corocoro Area 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 group name(s): Corocoro District; Corocoro Area
Political location(s): Bolivia; Nearest community: La Paz (130 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic subprovince: Ulloma Domain
Geologic district: Ferrocarriles del Estrado
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Eocene (host rocks)
Late Oligocene - Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental-foreland (host rocks)
Coincident features: stratigraphic unconformity (Between Caquiaviri (Vetas) Formation and Ballivian (Ramos) Formation)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone (limonitic)
Individual lithologies:lutite
shale
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Ballivian (Ramos) Formation

(2) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed
Individual lithologies:sandstone (tan to red)
conglomerate (local opal and chalcedony clasts)
Host rock stratigraphy:Caquiaviri (Vetas) Formation
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

Davidson, C. F., 1965
A Possible Mode of Origin of Strata-Bound Copper Ores
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 942 - 954

Entwistle, L. P., 1955
The Chalcocite-Ore Deposits at Corocoro, Bolivia
Economic Geology, Volume 50, p. 555 - 570

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

Gustafson, L. B.; Williams, N., 1981
Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Deposits of Copper, Lead, and Zinc
in Economic Geology, 75th Anniversary Volume (1905-1980), Edited by Skinner, B. J., Economic Geology and the Society of Economic Geologists, 964 p, p. 139 - 178

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

Pelissonnier, H., 1964
Structure Geologique et Genese du Gisement de Cuivre de Corocoro (Bolivie)
Bulletin de la Societé Geologique de France, Volume 6, p. 502 - 514

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

Singewald, J. T., 1933
Corocoro Copper District, Bolivia
in Copper Resources of the World, Edited by Anonymous, 16th International Geological Congress, Washington D C, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 855 p, p. 449 - 457

Production data: Report period: until 1952; 7,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes
Weight-commodity information:Cu: 500,000 metric ton
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to camp: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

427,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4.11 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to camp: 100.0%


840,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.75 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to camp: 100.0%
Associated deposit(s): Toledo (1212), Tancani - Libertad (1213), Challcoma (1214), Buen Pastor (1215), Capilla (1216), Copacabana - 6 (1217), Estrella (1218), Guallatiri (1219), Malcocoya (1220), Remedios (1221), San Angel (1222), San Agustin (1223), San Geronimo (1224), Santa Rita (1225), Santa Rosa (1226), Viscachani (1227), Yanabarra (1228)

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