CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


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.
References:
Injoque, J., 2002
Fe Oxide-Cu-Au Deposits in Peru: An Integrated View
Section The Americas, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 377 p, p. 97 - 114

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


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