CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
726 Chile (Atacama) 26.31.44 S -- 070.18.52 W Manto Ruso Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Manto Ruso
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama; Nearest community: El Salado (12.5 km 175)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit status: producer
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Geologic district: Los Pozos
Deposit object located: open pit
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Cretaceous (alteration)
Regional tectonic structure: fault Tectonic structure name: Atacama Fault
References:
Benavides, J.; Kyser, T. K.; Clark, A. H.; Oates, C. J.; Zamora, R.; Tarnovschi, R.; Castillo, B., 2007
The Mantoverde Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold District, III Región, Chile: The Role of Regionally Derived, Nonmagmatic Fluids in Chalcopyrite Mineralization
Economic Geology, Volume 102, p. 415 - 440

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

Vila, T.; Lindsay, N.; Zamora, R., 1996
Geology of the Manto Verde Copper Deposit
in Andean Copper Deposits: New Discoveries, Mineralization Styles and Metallogeny, Edited by Camus, F.; Sillitoe, R.; Peterson , R. , Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 5, 198 p, p. 157 - 169


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