CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
220 Chile (Atacama) 28.03.29 S -- 070.42.23 W Boquerón Chañar Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Boquerón Chañar
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
References:
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

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


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