CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
741 Chile (Antofagasto) 24.58.00 S -- 070.25.00 W Montecristo; Montecristo district Cu; Au
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Montecristo; Montecristo district
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Antofagasto; Nearest community: Taltal (35 km N)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: veins; magnetite-hematite veins; 3- 30 m wide, 0.5 -5 km long, NE trend; with apatite, actinolite/tremolite, quartz, calcite, chalcocite, covellite, bornite, chalcopyrite; fluid inclusions - 350 to 400° C.; Reference: Espinoza, S. R.; Véliz, H. G.; Esquivel, J. L.; Arias, J. F.; Moraga, A. B., 1996: The Cupriferous Province of the Coastal Range, Northern Chile; 2, 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. 19 - 32
Deposit status: past producer; Status comments: district comprises more than 10 veins;main ones: Montecristo, San Rafael, Abundancia, Toronto, and Santa Rosita; 3-30 m wide, 0.5- 5 km long; high grade zones >10 % Cu; traces of Au, Ag, Pb, Zn, Mo.
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Northern Chile Copper Province
Geologic district: Atacama Desert
Deposit object located: centre-main vein zone
Commodities: Cu; Au
Mineralization styles: veins
Geological ages: Middle Jurassic (country rocks)
Middle Jurassic (mineralization)
References:
Espinoza, S. R.; Véliz, H. G.; Esquivel, J. L.; Arias, J. F.; Moraga, A. B., 1996
The Cupriferous Province of the Coastal Range, Northern Chile
2, 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. 19 - 32

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


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