CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
242 Chile 20.12 S -- 069.21 W Sagasca 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): Sagasca
Political location(s): Chile
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; colloform chrysocolla as cement in conglomerate
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Tertiary (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Altos de Pica Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) colloform chrysocolla as cement in conglomerate; the poorly sorted conglom deposited by floods in semi-arid environment; Cu derived from weathering oxidation & leaching of nearby porphyry Cu
References:
Munoz, J. O., 1975
On Stratiform Copper Deposits of Chile
Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, Volume 98, p. 17 - 21


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