CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
232 Chile (Atacama) 28.25.27 S -- 070.50.32 W Huantemé Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Huantemé
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Deposit object located: surface mineralization
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:andesite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite
References:
Sillitoe, 2003
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits: An Andean View
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 787 - 812

Vivallo, W., 2000
Fe-deposits Chile, a Complimentary Contribution to the World Minerals Geoscience Database Project Fe-oxide (Cu-Au) Database
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