CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
228 Chile (Coquimbo) 29.43.12 S -- 071.14.09 W El Romeral Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): El Romeral
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Coquimbo
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: pipelike massive; Reference: Bookstrom, A. A., 1977: The Magnetite Deposits of El Romeral, Chile; Economic Geology, Volume 72, p. 1101 - 1130
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Deposit object located: surface mineralization
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:andesite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite
References:
Espinoza, L., 2000
Estudio Petrográfico del Cuerpo Cerro Principal del Distrito Ferrífero El Romeral, IV Región-La Serena
Memoria de Título, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 116 p.

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


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