CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
7 Bolivia 16.50.00 S -- 068.25.00 W Chacoma Area 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 group name(s): Chacoma Area
Political location(s): Bolivia; Nearest community: Viacha (15 km W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Tertiary (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
Coincident features: organic matter (fossil plants)
Regional tectonic structure: anticlinorium
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Tiahuanacu 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

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

Associated deposit(s): Chacoma (1012), Las Mercedes (1013), Lord De Senes (1147), Cerro Tancaloma (1148), Koniri (1149), Cerro Pusimujuna (1150), Cutuna (1152), Iquiri (1153), San Simon I (1154)

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