CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
766 Peru 15.48.43 S -- 074.22.43 W Atiquipa Cu; Au
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Atiquipa
Political location(s): Peru; Nearest community: Lima (600 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: veins/stockworks; genetically related to the host intrusion
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: small
Geologic province: Andean Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Coastal Cordillera
Geologic district: Caņete-Huarmey Marginal Basin
Commodities: Cu; Au
Mineralization styles: veins
Geological ages: Middle Cretaceous (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) intrusive; gabbro suite (mid-late Cretaceous Coastal Batholith); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: none
Individual lithologies:gabbro
Host rock stratigraphy:Chala gabbro igneous complex, Linga supergroup
Metallogenic signatures: Cu-Au
Mineralogy: (alteration): Na-scapolite, epidote, quartz, chlorite
(mineralization): Cu oxides, magnetite, clinopyroxene, actinolite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) A group of 15 veins; worked by artisanal miners to extract the Cu oxides which contain traces of Au; the veins have a potential ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousand tonnes.

(Applies to: location and access) Locations was taken from the location of Atiquipa in Google Earth, and is very approximate.
References:
Injoque, J., 2002
Fe Oxide-Cu-Au Deposits in Peru: An Integrated View
Section The Americas, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 377 p, p. 97 - 114

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


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