CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
15 Bolivia 21.40.00 S -- 067.27.00 W Serrania de las Minas 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): Serrania de las Minas Area
Political location(s): Bolivia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Geologic province: Altiplano-Cordillera Occidental
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Tertiary - Middle Tertiary (host rocks)
Ordovician (country rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland (host rocks)
continental arc; Formal name: Cordillera Occidental (country rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: regional thrust (west flank of a thrust block of Ordovician siltstone and phyllite)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Potoco and San Vicente Formations
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 deposit(s): Farellón (1065), Cerro Colorado (Negra) (1066), 25 de Julio (Peña Blanca) (1067), Bartolo (1068), Copacabana (1178)

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