CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
808 Peru (Ica) 15.12.22 S -- 075.06.45 W Marcona Mine Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Marcona Mine (mine name)
Political location(s): Peru; Province or state: Ica; Subprovince or locality: Nazca; Nearest community: San Juan de Marcona
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: producer; Status comments: open pit
Geologic province: Andean Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Coastal Cordillera
Geologic district: Caņete-Huarmey Marginal Basin
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: massive; stockwork; breccia
Geological ages: Early Paleozoic (host rocks)
Late Jurassic (host rocks)
Cretaceous (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-chert (contains a single quartzite layer)
Individual lithologies:limestone (silicified)
marble (dolomitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Marcona Formation

(2) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
External host rock forms:flows
sill(s)
Individual lithologies:andesite
basaltic andesite
volcaniclastic
limestone (restricted)
Host rock stratigraphy:Rio Grande Formation

(3) intrusive; granodiorite-tonalite suite (Proximal to mineralization); Depositional setting: hypabyssal
External host rock forms:dykes
Individual lithologies:dacite
granodiorite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: general) Consists of multiple open pits.
References:
Hawkes, N.; Clark, A.; Moody, T. C., 2002
Marcona and Pampa de Pongo: Giant Mesozoic Fe-(Cu, Au) Deposits in the Peruvian Coastal Belt
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. 115 - 130


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