CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
620 Argentina 25.30 S -- 064.05 W Juramento Ag; Cu; As
 
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): Juramento
Political location(s): Argentina; Subprovince or locality: Pasaje River
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; secondary cu in dolomitic oolitic limestone beds
Commodities: Ag; Cu; As
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) secondary Cu in dolomitic oolitic limestone beds; samples from old adit averaged less than 1% Cu with 1-2 oz/ton Ag
Resource data:
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3,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1 percent
Ag: 25 grams/metric ton
Reference: Anonymous, 1995: Paramount Advances Projects; The Northern Miner, April 17 issue, p. 11
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 2001; 11 million metric tons; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.83 percent
Ag: 19 grams/metric ton
Reference: Durieux, C.G.; Brown, A.C., 2001: Diagenetic stratiform copper-silver mineralization, Salta district, northwestern Argentina; Piestrzynski et al. (eds.), p. 227-230.; in Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Edited by Piestrzynski, A., Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial SGA Meeting, SGA, Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers Lisse, 6, p. 227 - 230
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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