Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Magnetita de Pedernales; El Perro prospect (magnetite dykes) |
Political location(s): |
Chile; Province or state: Atacama |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Geologic province: |
Chilean Coastal Cordillera |
Geologic subprovince: |
Cretaceous Iron Belt |
Commodities: |
Fe |
Mineralization styles: |
magnetite dyles |
Geological ages: |
Late Miocene (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) volcanic; intermediate-felsic volcanic rocksIndividual lithologies: | dacite |
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Mineralogy: |
(mineralization): magnetite |
References: |
Grez, E.; Aguilar, A.; Henríquez, F.; Nystrom, J. O., 1991 |
Magnetita Pedernales: A New Magmatic Iron Deposit in Northern Chile |
Economic Geology, Volume 86, p. 1346 - 1349 |
Sillitoe, 2003 |
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits: An Andean View |
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 787 - 812 |
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