CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
296 Chile (Coquimbo) 29.56.24 S -- 071.14.24 W Panulcillo Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Panulcillo
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Coquimbo; Nearest community: La Serena (70 km 180)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: skarn(?); Located in Coastal Cordillera in Chile. Reported by Hopper and Correa in an abstract for Australian Mineral Foundation Conference December 4-5, 2000 in Perth, Australia
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 3 Mt; Status comments: First mined by a French company (Central Chili Copper Mining Co.) ca. 1860, and from 1919 to 1925 by an English company (Banco Anglo de Coquimbo. Grades ~10 % Cu in supergene zone to 3.5 % below it.
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Geologic district: La Serena
Deposit object located: mine site
Commodities: Cu
References:
Hopper, D.; Correa, A., 2000
The Panulcillo and Teresa de Colmo Copper Deposits: Two Contrasting Examples of Fe-Ox Cu-Au Mineralisation from the Coastal Cordillera of Chile
Section The Americas, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 177 - 190

Sillitoe, 2003
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits: An Andean View
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 787 - 812


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