CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
719 Chile (Atacama) 27.27.29 S -- 070.15.43 W Mantos de Cobre Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Mantos de Cobre
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama; Nearest community: Copiapó
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Geologic district: Punta del Cobre
Deposit object located: mine site
Commodities: Cu
References:
Marschik, R.; Fontboté, L., 1996
Copper(-Iron) Mineralization and Superposition of Alteration Events in the Punta Del Cobre Belt, Northern Chile
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. 171 - 189

Marschik, R.; Leveille, R. A.; Martin, W., 2000
La Candelaria and the Punta del Cobre District, Chile: Early Cretaceous Iron-Oxide Cu-Au (-Zn-Ag) Mineralization
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. 163 - 176

Marschik, R.; Fontboté, L., 2001
The Candelaria-Punta del Cobre Iron Oxide Cu-Au(-Zn-Ag) Deposits, Chile
Economic Geology, Volume 96, p. 1799 - 1826

Marschik, R.; Chiaradia, M.; Fontboté, L., 2003
Implications of Pb Isotope Signatures of Rocks and Iron oxide Cu-Au Ores in the Candelaria-Punta del Cobre District, Chile
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 900 - 912

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


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