CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit name(s): Rodados Negros
Longitude / Latitude: -67.49530 / -23.80360
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:
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

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.


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