CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1036 Bolivia (La Paz) 17.00.06 S -- 068.24.26 W Llallagua 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): Llallagua
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz; Nearest community: Estachion Comanch (4 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite mineralization in huayllamarca formation
Geologic province: Altiplano
Geologic subprovince: Ulloma Domain
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: unconformity
regional faulting
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:lutite
sandstone
gypsum
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Huayllamarca Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite mineralization in Huayllamarca formation; samples contain up to 10% copper
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

Associated mine(s): Llallagua Mine (3)
Associated group(s): Corocoro Area (4)

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