CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
601 Peru 11.54.30 S -- 076.34.60 W Perubar Pb; Zn; Ag
 
Database name: World Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits
Custodial agency: Society of Economic Geologists & Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: J. M. Franklin, H. L. Gibson, I. R. Jonasson, and A. G. Galley
Release date: 2015-03-23
   
Deposit name(s): Perubar (deposit name)
Political location(s): Peru
Deposit clan (type): Volcanogenic massive sulphide
Deposit (sub) types: Bimodal felsic; 4
Geologic province: South Cordilleran
Geologic subprovince: Cariete Basin
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Ag
Geological ages: Maastrichtian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-intra-arc; transtensive; Formal name: Cariete Basin (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks
Radiometric ages: Object dated: host rocks; Age - Ma: 68.92; +0.16; -0.16; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: rhyolite; Formal name: Cariete; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: Precise age of altered porphyritic rhyolite directly overlying the deposit; Reference: Polliand, M.; Schaltegger, U.; Frank, M.; Fontboté, L., 2005: Formation of intra-arc volcanosedimentary basins in the western flank of the central Peruvian Andes during Late Cretacious oblique subduction: field evidence and constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes; International Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 94, p. 231 - 242

Object dated: host rocks(1); Age - Ma: 69.71; +0.18; -0.18; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: zircon; Source rock: rhyolite; Formal name: Cariete; Event dated: host rock; Interpretive comment: Precise age of footwall strongly hydrothermally altered and fractured flow-banded rhyolite; Reference: Polliand, M.; Schaltegger, U.; Frank, M.; Fontboté, L., 2005: Formation of intra-arc volcanosedimentary basins in the western flank of the central Peruvian Andes during Late Cretacious oblique subduction: field evidence and constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes; International Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 94, p. 231 - 242
References:
Polliand, M.; Schaltegger, U.; Frank, M.; Fontboté, L., 2005
Formation of intra-arc volcanosedimentary basins in the western flank of the central Peruvian Andes during Late Cretacious oblique subduction: field evidence and constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes
International Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 94, p. 231 - 242

Steinmuller, K.; Abad, N. C.; Grant, B., 2000
Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits in Peru
in Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits of Latin America, Edited by Sherlock, R. L; Logan, M. A. V., Special Publication, Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, St. John's, Nfld., 2, 641 p, p. 423 - 446

Resource data:
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5.581 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Pb: 1.4 percent
Zn: 9.9 percent
Ag: 30 grams/metric ton
Reference: Franklin, J. M.; Gibson, H. L.; Jonasson, I. R.; Galley, A. G., 2005: Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits; Appendices on CD-ROM, Section [Franklin] Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits, in Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Special Volume, Society of Economic Geology, 1146 p., 1 disks
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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