CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
297 Chile (Antofagasto) 25.19.48 S -- 070.18.36 W Teresa de Colmo Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Teresa de Colmo
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Antofagasto; Nearest community: Taltal (75 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit (sub) types: Located in Coastal Cordillera in Chile. Reported by Hopper and Correa in an abstract for Australian Mineral Foundation Conference December 4-5, 2000 in Perth, Australia
Deposit status: prospect; Size category: 70 Mt; Status comments: Some production of high grade ore from underground workings in 1950s. Exploration by Rio Tinto in 1994-95 indicated resources of 70 Mt averaging 0.8 % Cu (20 Mt oxide ore and the rest sulphide ore).
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Geologic district: Atacama Fault Zone
Deposit object located: mill
Commodities: Fe
References:
Hopper, D.; Correa, A., 2000
The Panulcillo and Teresa de Colmo Copper Deposits: Two Contrasting Examples of Fe-Ox Cu-Au Mineralisation from the Coastal Cordillera of Chile
Section The Americas, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 177 - 190

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


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