CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
226 Chile (Provincia de Huasco) 28.48.44 S -- 070.59.21 W El Algarrobo Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): El Algarrobo
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Provincia de Huasco; Nearest community: La Serena (92 km 012.5)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Deposit object located: surface mineralization
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks; Metamorphic grade: lower greenschist
Individual lithologies:andesite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite
References:
Espinoza, S., 1971
Origin y Distribucion de Fosforo Azufre Y Selice en el Yacimiento de El Algarrobo, Prov. de Atacama, Chile
Thesis, Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Geología, Santiago, 150 p.

Espinoza, S., 1984
Le Role du Volcanisme du Crétace Inférieur Dans la Métallogenese de la Ceinture Ferrifere d'Atacama-Coquimbo, Chili
Ph. D. Thesis, L'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, 153 p.

Menard, J. J., 1995
Relationship Between Altered Pyroxene Diorite and the Magnetite Mineralization in the Chilean Iron Belt, with Emphasis on the El Algarrobo Iron Deposits (Atacama Region, Chile)
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 30, p. 268 - 274

Montecinos, P., 1983
Petrologie Des Rroches Intrusives Associées Au Gisement de Fer El Algarrobo (Chili)
Ph. D. Thesis, Université de Paris-Sud, Paris, 191 p.

Oyarzùn, J.; Frutos, J., 1984
Tectonic and Petrological Frame of the Cretaceous Iron Deposits of North Chile
Mining Geology, Volume 34, p. 21 - 31

Rojas, M., 1993
Contenido Y Distribución de Las Tierras Raras En Apatitas Del Yacimiento de Hierro "El Algarrobo", III Región
Memoria de Título, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 199 p.

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


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