Deposit number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
759 | Peru (Arequipa) | 15.19.53 S -- 074.47.09 W | Fe Acarí 2 | Fe |
Database name: | World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits | ||||||
Compilers: | Sunil S. Gandhi | ||||||
Release date: | 2015-03-04 | ||||||
Deposit name(s): | Fe Acarí 2 | ||||||
Political location(s): | Peru; Province or state: Arequipa; Nearest community: Lima (425 km SE) | ||||||
Deposit clan (type): | Kiruna-type | ||||||
Deposit status: | past producer; Size category: 20 Mt | ||||||
Geologic province: | Andean Orogen | ||||||
Geologic subprovince: | Coastal Batholith | ||||||
Geologic district: | Arequipa Segment | ||||||
Commodities: | Fe | ||||||
Mineralization styles: | massive and banded magnetite veins | ||||||
Geological ages: | Middle Cretaceous (host rocks) | ||||||
Alteration signatures: | propylitic alteration: epidote-clinopyroxene-amphibole; What was altered: wall rock | ||||||
Qualified comments: | (Applies to: mineralization) Average grade 66 % Fe; mined in 1960s; veins 1 to 10 m wide and up to 1 km long; veins show vertical zoning from magnetite-rich to mafic silicate-rich at depth; magneitite-rich zones commonly banded. | ||||||
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