Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Montecristo; Montecristo district |
Political location(s): |
Chile; Province or state: Antofagasto; Nearest community: Taltal (35 km N) |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
veins; magnetite-hematite veins; 3- 30 m wide, 0.5 -5 km long, NE trend; with apatite, actinolite/tremolite, quartz, calcite, chalcocite, covellite, bornite, chalcopyrite; fluid inclusions - 350 to 400° C.; Reference: Espinoza, S. R.; Véliz, H. G.; Esquivel, J. L.; Arias, J. F.; Moraga, A. B., 1996: The Cupriferous Province of the Coastal Range, Northern Chile; 2, 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. 19 - 32 |
Deposit status: |
past producer; Status comments: district comprises more than 10 veins;main ones: Montecristo, San Rafael, Abundancia, Toronto, and Santa Rosita; 3-30 m wide, 0.5- 5 km long; high grade zones >10 % Cu; traces of Au, Ag, Pb, Zn, Mo. |
Geologic province: |
Chilean Coastal Cordillera |
Geologic subprovince: |
Northern Chile Copper Province |
Geologic district: |
Atacama Desert |
Deposit object located: |
centre-main vein zone |
Commodities: |
Cu; Au |
Mineralization styles: |
veins |
Geological ages: |
Middle Jurassic (country rocks) Middle Jurassic (mineralization) |
References: |
Espinoza, S. R.; Véliz, H. G.; Esquivel, J. L.; Arias, J. F.; Moraga, A. B., 1996 |
The Cupriferous Province of the Coastal Range, Northern Chile |
2, 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. 19 - 32 |
Sillitoe, 2003 |
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits: An Andean View |
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 787 - 812 |
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