CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1060 Bolivia (Potosi) 21.22.17 S -- 066.31.35 W Mesa Verde; San Pablito 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): Mesa Verde; San Pablito
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: Potosi; Nearest community: Cerrillos (6.5 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite and copper carbonates occur disseminated in conglomerate
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Late Oligocene - Middle Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: regional folding (north-trending anticline and syncline)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Quehua Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite and copper carbonates occur disseminated in conglomerate; east flank of Kellu Kellu anticline in lower part of formation
References:
Boberg, W. W., 1987
Lake Alice Silver-Copper District Sediment-Hosted, Stratiform Sulfide Deposits, Lincoln County, Wyoming
Unpublished Report, 12 p.

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

Love, J. D.; Antweiler, J. C., 1973
Copper, Silver, and Zinc in the Nugget Sandstone, Western Wyoming
in The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Greater River Basin, Symposium and Core Seminar, Edited by Glaze, R. E., Twenty-Fifth Field Conference, Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, Wyoming Geological Association. Casper, WY, 178 p, p. 139 - 147

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): Meas Verde / San Pablito Occurrence (70)
Associated group(s): Esmeralda Area (14)

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