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): San Agustin
Longitude / Latitude: -68.48139 / -17.41583
Political location(s): Bolivia; Province or state: La Paz; Nearest community: Ulloma (8 km NNE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; copper minerals replace cement in fluvial channels in sandstone of the totora formation
Geologic province: Altiplano
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound replacement
Geological ages: Miocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding (fluvial channels); Coincident feature name: Totora Formation
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Depositional setting: fluvial
Host rock stratigraphy:Totora Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) copper minerals replace cement in fluvial channels in sandstone of the Totora formation; mantos, 5 cm to 1.1 m thick, strike 350 degrees and dip 30 NE
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Unpublished Report, 12 p.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): San Agustin Mine (51)

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