CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
245 Chile (Atacama) 26.52.12 S -- 070.02.42 W Punta de Lobos Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Punta de Lobos
Political location(s): Chile; Province or state: Atacama; Nearest community: Copiapó
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Cretaceous Iron Belt
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:dacite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, gold
References:
Díaz, F.; Bembow, M. S.; Bravo, N.; Gutiérrez, A.; Montti, S.; Salinas, M.; Vogel, S., 1981
Mapa Metalogénico de la III Región (Inédito). 5 Vol, 6 Mapas
Corporación de Fomento de la Producción - Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas, Santiago, Scale 250000

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


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