CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
27 Cile (Coquimbo) 31.22.41 S -- 071.05.50 W El Espino Cu; Au
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit group name(s): El Espino
Political location(s): Cile; Province or state: Coquimbo
Deposit clan (type): Unclassified
Geologic province: South American Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Coastal Cordillera
Geologic district: Mesozoic Iron Belt
Deposit object located: buildings
Commodities: Cu; Au
Alteration signatures: albitization; What was altered: all rocks; Component: regional alteration
sodic-calcic alteration; Component: local alteration
potassic alteration; Component: local alteration
Mineralogy: (mineralization - oxide): hematite, magnetite, chalcopyrite, pyrite
References:
Anonymous, 2007
Operations Overview: The El Espino Project
Explorator Resources Inc., Canada, Company Report, Internet

Lopez-Orrego, G., 2006
El Espino Iron-Oxide Copper Gold District, Coastal Cordillera of Northern Chile
in Backbone of the Americas-Patagonia to Alaska (3-7 April, 2006), Mendoza, Argentina, Edited by Mahlburg Kay, S.; Ramos, V. A., Conference Proceedings, Asociación Geológica Argentina, The Geological Society of America

Associated deposit(s): El Espino (812), El Espino (813), El Espino (814)

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