CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit name(s): El Melón; El Melon
Longitude / Latitude: -71.08360 / -29.21800
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Commodities: Fe
References:
Sillitoe, 2003
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits: An Andean View
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 787 - 812

Travisany, V.; Henríquez, F.; Nystrom, J. O., 1995
Magnetite Lava Flow in the Pleito Melón District of the Chilean Iron Belt
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 438 - 444


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