CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1069 Bolivia (Potosi) 21.38.05 S -- 067.06.11 W Bolívar; Bolivar; San Salvador; Cabreria 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): Bolívar; Bolivar; San Salvador; Cabreria
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: San Pablo de Lípez (52 km W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; three mantos of chalcocite, chalcopyrite and malachite, partly replacing fossil plants
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic subprovince: Uyuni Domain
Geologic district: Sud Lípez
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Oligocene - Middle Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Coincident features: organic matter (fossil plants)
stratigraphic unconformity (Lower Quehua Formation beneath unconformity with tuff)
Regional tectonic structure: regional folding (northeast-trending anticlines and synclines)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Quehua Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) three mantos of chalcocite, chalcopyrite and malachite, partly replacing fossil plants; mantos strike 054 and dip 5-7 degrees SE; 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

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

Resource data:
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9,500 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.7 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): Bolivar Mine (79)
Associated group(s): Avaroa Area (16)

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