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): Aguilar
Longitude / Latitude: -67.15111 / -21.65139
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: San Pablo de Lopez (56 km W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, bornite, malachite, and chrysocolla are disseminated in a manto
Geologic province: Cordillera Occidental/Avaroa Area
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Oligocene (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, bornite, malachite, and chrysocolla are disseminated in a manto; capped by shale, 50 cm thick; on a flank of a broad anticline in lower part of 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

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

Production data: 5 metric ton concentrate; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: M
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 15 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): Aguilar Mine (84)

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