CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
239 Chile (Atacama) 26.03.49 S -- 069.00.49 W Magnetita de Pedernales; El Perro prospect (magnetite dykes) Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Magnetita de Pedernales; El Perro prospect (magnetite dykes)
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: magnetite dyles
Geological ages: Late Miocene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:dacite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite
References:
Grez, E.; Aguilar, A.; Henríquez, F.; Nystrom, J. O., 1991
Magnetita Pedernales: A New Magmatic Iron Deposit in Northern Chile
Economic Geology, Volume 86, p. 1346 - 1349

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


Generated 2015-03-04 14:15:28 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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