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): |
El Romeral |
Political location(s): |
Chile; Province or state: Coquimbo |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
pipelike massive; Reference: Bookstrom, A. A., 1977: The Magnetite Deposits of El Romeral, Chile; Economic Geology, Volume 72, p. 1101 - 1130 |
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 rocksIndividual lithologies: | andesite |
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Mineralogy: |
(mineralization): magnetite |
References: |
Espinoza, L., 2000 |
Estudio Petrográfico del Cuerpo Cerro Principal del Distrito Ferrífero El Romeral, IV Región-La Serena |
Memoria de Título, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 116 p. |
Sillitoe, 2003 |
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits: An Andean View |
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 787 - 812 |
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