CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
402 Argentina 36.15 S -- 069.58 W Agua - Botada Cu; U; V
 
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): Agua - Botada
Political location(s): Argentina
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in molassic sedimentary rocks
Commodities: Cu; U; V
Geological ages: Jurassic - Cretaceous (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in molassic sedimentary rocks; 5 levels/no 4-600x300x(0.3-1.2 )metres-mean grades 0.15% U3O8 & 0.1% Cu; organic matter regulated Cu-U-V fixation during late diagenetic stage
References:
Brodtkorb (De), M. K., 1984
Strata-Bound Deposits of Argentina
in Syngenesis and Epigenesis in the Formation of Mineral Deposits, Edited by Wauschkuhn, A.; Kluth, C.; Zimmermann, R. A., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 653 p, p. 92 - 102

Malumian, N., 1983
The Cretaceous of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
in The Phanerozoic Geology of the World, Part 2: The Mesozoic, Edited by Moullade, M.; Nairn, A. E. M., Amsterdam Elsevier, Amsterdam, 450 p, p. 265 - 304


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