CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Rosario; Rosario Prospect
Longitude / Latitude: -66.72111 / -21.53333
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: Pululus (6.5 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; hematite concretions cored by malachite and a 13 cm-wide vein of chalcocite, all in a lense 150 m long , 25 m wide and 2 m thick
Deposit status: occurrence
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: concretions
Geological ages: Eocene - Oligocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Potoco Formation
Mineralogy: (concretions-core): malachite
(concretions-rim): hematite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) hematite concretions cored by malachite and a 13 cm-wide vein of chalcocite, all in a lense 150 m long , 25 m wide and 2 m thick
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): Rosario Prospect (72)

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