CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
293 Chile (Atacama) 26.30.00 S -- 070.04.00 W Manto Monstruo Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Manto Monstruo
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama; Nearest community: Copiapo (105 km 350)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit (sub) types: specularite-rich breccia ; Located on the Manto Verde Fault, which dips moderately to the east and is part of the regioanl north-trending Atacama Fault Zone (approximately 7 km NNW of Manto Verde mine).
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Geologic district: Los Pozos
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: breccia
Tectonic setting: continental orogenic belt-major fault zone; convergent; Formal name: Atacama Fault Zone (mineralization)
Mineralogy: (mineralization): specularite
References:
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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