CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
235 Chile (Antofagasto) 23.50.22 S -- 067.29.29 W Laco Sur Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Laco Sur
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Antofagasto
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Altiplano
Geologic district: El Laco
Deposit object located: surface mineralization
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Pliocene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:andesite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite
References:
Broman, C.; Nystrom, J. O.; Henríquez, F.; Elfman, M., 1999
Fluid Inclusions in Magnetite-Apatite Ore from a Cooling Magmatic System at El Laco, Chile
GFF (Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar), Volume 121, p. 253 - 267

Frutos, J.; Oyarzùn, J., 1975
Tectonic and Geochemical Evidence Concerning the Genesis of El Laco Magnetite Lava Flow Deposits, Chile
Economic Geology, Volume 70, p. 988 - 990

Frutos, J.; Oyarzún, J.; Shiga, Y.; Alfaro, G., 1990
The El Laco Magnetite Lava Flow Deposits, Northern Chile: an Up-To-Date Review and New Data
in Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes, Edited by Fontbotè, L.; Amstutz, G. C.; Cardoso, M.; Cedillo, E.; Frutos, J., Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 681 - 690

Haggerty, S. E., 1970
The Laco Magnetite Lava Flow, Chile
Carnegie Institute of Washington Year Book, Volume 68, p. 329 - 330

Henriquez, F.; Martin, R. F., 1978
Crystal-Growth Textures in Magnetite Flows and Feeder Dykes, El Laco, Chile
Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 16, p. 581 - 589

Oyarzún, J.; Frutos, J., 1982
Proposición de Un Modelo Genético Para Los Depósitos Cretácicocs de Magnetita Del Norte de Chile
in Congreso Geológico Latinoamericano, No. 5, Edited by Anonymous, Actas, Vol 3, p. 25 - 39

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

Park, C. F., 1961
A Magnetite "Flow" in Northern Chile
Economic Geology, Volume 56, p. 431 - 441

Park, C. F., 1972
The Iron Ore Deposits of the Pacific Basin
Economic Geology, Volume 67, p. 339 - 349

Rhodes, A. L.; Oreskes, N., 1995
Magnetite Deposition at El Laco, Chile, Implications for Fe-Oxide Formation in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems
in Giant Ore Deposits - II. Controls on the Scale of Orogenic Magmatic-Hydrothermal Mineralization. Proceedings of the Second Giant Ore Deposits Workshop, April 25-27, 1995, Edited by Anonymous, Proceedings, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, p. 582 - 622

Rhodes, A. L.; Oreskes, N., 1999
Oxygen Isotope Composition of Magnetite Deposits at El Laco, Chile: Evidence of Formation from Isotopically Heavy Fluids
in Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central Andes , Edited by Skinner, B. J., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 7, 351 p, p. 333 - 351

Rhodes, A. L.; Oreskes, N.; Sheets, S., 1999
Geology and Rare Earth Element Geochemistry of Magnetite Deposits at El Laco, Chile
in Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central Andes , Edited by Skinner, B. J., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 7, 351 p, p. 299 - 332

Ruiz, C.; Aguirre, L.; Corvalán, J.; Klohn, C.; Klohn, E.; Levi, B., 1965
Geología Y Yacimientos Metalíferos de Chile
Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas de Chile, 305 p.

Vivallo, W.; Henríquez, F.; Espinoza, S., 1991
Alteración Hidrotermal en el Comp´Lejo en el Complejo Volcánico el Laco, Norte de Chile
in Congreso Geológico Chileno, No. 6, Viña Del Mar, Edited by Anonymous, Actas, p. 44 - 47

Vivallo, W.; Henríquez, F.; Espinoza, S., 1994
Oxygen and Sulfur Isotopes in Hydrothermally Altered Rocks and Gypsum Deposits at El Laco Mining District, Northern Chile
Revista Comunicaciones, Chile, Volume 45, p. 93 - 100

Associated group(s): El Laco (2)

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