CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
241 Chile (Atacama) 26.08.15 S -- 070.17.06 W Monte Iris Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Monte Iris
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:andesite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, chrysotile, malachite
References:
Espinoza, S., 1979
Una Hipótesis Sobre la Metalogénesis de la Franja Ferrífera Chilena
in Congreso Geológico Chileno, No. 2, Arica., Edited by Anonymous, Actas, Vol 2, p. C1 - C21

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


Generated 2015-03-04 14:15:31 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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