 | Ossandon C., G., Freraut C., R., Gustafson, L. B., Lindsay, D. D., Zentilli, M. (2001) Geology of the Chuquicamata Mine: A Progress Report. Economic Geology, 96 (2) 249-270 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.96.2.249 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Chuquicamata Mine: A Progress Report GUILLERMO OSSANDÓN C., CODELCO-Chile, Gerencia Exploraciones...Santiago, Chile ROBERTO FRÉRAUT C., CODELCO-Chile, Superintendencia Geología, Chuquicamata, Chile LEWIS... DARRYL D. LINDSAY, SRK Consultores, Santiago, Chile AND MARCOS ZENTILLI Department of Earth Sciences...Canada B3H 3J5 Abstract Chuquicamata, in northern Chile, is the world’s greatest copper orebody. It was...The last mineralization of the main stage was enargite, digenite, covellite, pyrite, and minor coarse |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Sustainable Mining Research & Consult EIRL), Casilla 28, San Pedro de la Paz 4130000, Chile; E-Mail: bernhard...June 2014 / Published: 8 July 2014 Abstract: The mining industry is a fundamental industry involved in...to increases in the waste/metal production ratio. Mine wastes deposited on-land in so-called tailings dams...environmental issues that need to be addressed (e.g., acid mine drainage formation due to sulphide oxidation, geotechnical...and social concerns due to land use during mining. The mining industry recognizes these concerns and is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Escondida Porphyry Copper Deposit, Antofagasta Region, Chile RUBEN A. PADILLA GARZA,† BHP Minerals and Department...Minera Escondida Limitada, avenida de la minera 501, Antofagasta, Chile Abstract The Escondida porphyry...porphyry copper deposit, located in northern Chile, was one of the two largest copper producers of the world...the basement of the Precordillera de Domeyko province in northern Chile. We propose that the intrusive stock... chalcopyrite, pyrite, chalcocite, covellite, enargite, sphalerite, tennantite, and galena. This acid-sulfate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the most frequently observed arsenic minerals; enargite/luzonite and arsenopyrite are less common. The...ideal case, to assist in the planning of selective mining. Introduction T H E ECONOMIC GEOLOGY of polluting...processes operate. Environmental standards for the mining and smelting industries, however, are being improved...Porphyry copper deposits account for 60% of the world's mine production of copper and constitute 80% of ore reserves...minerals occur Deposit Tennantite-group minerals Enargite Luzonite Arsenopyrite References Downloaded |  | | Report (issue) | | Copper Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits..................important copper ore minerals may include bornite and enargite. Ore minerals occur as disseminations and in stockworks...porphyry copper deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AucusT, 1975 The PorphyryCopperDepositat E1 Salvador,Chile LEWIS B. GUSTAFSON AND JOHN P. HUNT Abstract...copper deposit at E1 Salvador culminated volcanic activity in the Indio Muerto district. Host rocks for the...porphyry series. However, rhyolitic volcanismin the district was clearly more felsic than younger granodioritic...rutile857 No. 5 The PorphyryCopperDepositat E1 Salvador,Chile Fig. 1. Aerial view of Cerro Indio Muerto... Volcanic peaks of the high Cordillera,the Salar de Pedernales,and low hills underlain by folded Mesozoicsedimentsand |  | | Report (chapter) | | volcanism: a review R. H. Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College...Manto-type copper deposits are best known from Chile and southern Peru. They consist o f stratiform concentrations...plugs and pyroclastic beds at Cerro de Mercado, Mexico, and El Laco, Chile. The map netite magma separated...Copper is less plentiful, but commonly occurs as enargite where advanced argillic alteration is developed...northwest it impinges on the Sonoran Basin and Range province and in the southeast, south of the Trans-Mexico |  | Barros, Kayo Santana, Vielmo, Vicente Schaeffer, Moreno, Belén Garrido, Riveros, Gabriel, Cifuentes, Gerardo, Bernardes, Andréa Moura (2022) Chemical Composition Data of the Main Stages of Copper Production from Sulfide Minerals in Chile: A Review to Assist Circular Economy Studies. Minerals, 12 (2) 250 doi:10.3390/min12020250 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Stages of Copper Production from Sulfide Minerals in Chile: A Review to Assist Circular Economy Studies Kayo...Stages of Copper Production from Sulfide Minerals in Chile: A Review to Assist Circular Economy Studies. Minerals...Departamento de Ingeniería Metalúrgica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida...O’Higgins 3363, Estación Central, Santiago 917022, Chile; gerardo.cifuentes@usach.cl Transducto S.A., Avenida...917021, Chile; griveros@transducto.com Correspondence: kayobarros.s@gmail.com Abstract: The mining industry |  | Sahlström, Fredrik, Arribas, Antonio, Dirks, Paul, Corral, Isaac, Chang, Zhaoshan (2017) Mineralogical Distribution of Germanium, Gallium and Indium at the Mt Carlton High-Sulfidation Epithermal Deposit, NE Australia, and Comparison with Similar Deposits Worldwide. Minerals, 7 (11) 213 doi:10.3390/min7110213 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (alunite), Stage 2A high-sulfidation enargite mineralization (enargite, argyrodite, sphalerite, pyrite, barite)...argyrodite (up to 6.95 wt % Ge) and Ge-bearing enargite (up to 2189 ppm Ge). Co-existing sphalerite has...In at Mt Carlton. Analyzed reference samples of enargite from seven similar deposits worldwide have average...gallium; indium; critical elements; LA-ICP-MS; enargite; sphalerite 1. Introduction Germanium (Ge), gallium...Tsumeb in Namibia, Kipushi in D.R. Congo and the Apex Mine in Utah; e.g., [7]), syngenetic or early diagenetic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralization in the Atacama segment of the South American Andes, northern Chile (26°15'-27°25'S) Received:...magmatism and the rich ore deposits of northern Chile have been the focus of numerous studies. Significant...feature of the geology of this part of northern Chile is the existence of n o r t h - south to north-east-...alteration and cama segment - Andes - northern Chile mineralization (Baker and Guilbert, 1987; Colley...Introduction (Fig. 1): (1) along the Atacama Fault System; (2) along the Inca de Oro Belt; (3) along the West |  | | Report (issue) | | Raul Sal as 0., Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Santiago, Chile Open-File Report 87- 634 1987...deposits associated with stratovolcanos in Bolivia and Chile ........................ 5. 12A 15A Distribution...northwestern Argentina, western Boliva, northern Chile, and southern Peru, are potential targets for hydrothermal...central Andean region of southern Peru, northern Chile, western Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina. The...Are'q:u:|jjjj|:;:| Morococaia 'Tv5 Los ^ ^ Frailes 20 : CHILE Antofagasta 24° 24' Salta Tucuman 289 28' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Earth. In 2017, the Central Andes accounted for the mine production of around 39% of the world’s copper,...Central Chile to southern Peru, whereas the youngest and easternmost extend from central Chile/Argentina...includes some of the world largest copper deposits (Chile is the world’s leading copper producer, with Peru...Paleocene-Early Oligocene porphyry copper belt (Chile). Figure 3 Typical stockwork in a porphyry deposit...Atlántida (Chile). Photo width: 5 cm. Figure 2 A–B vein Panoramic view of the Cerro de Pasco (Peru) |  | Schl�ter, Jochen, Malcherek, Thomas, Stanley, Chris, Dini, Maurizio, Donoso, Arturo Molina (2017) Erazoite, a new copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 194 (1) 91-96 doi:10.1127/njma/2016/0028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile Jochen Schlüter, Thomas...found in 2012 in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco ore deposit, Northern Chile. Erazoite occurs as tiny...Key words: erazoite, El Guanaco gold deposit, copper tin sulphide, Taltal, Chile Introduction The new...the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco ore deposit (25° 06′ 22″ S 69° 32′ 10″ W), in the Atacama desert about...180 km ESE of Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The El Guanaco gold mineralization was discovered |  | Sillitoe, Richard H., Devine, Fionnuala A.M., Sanguinetti, Martin I., Friedman, Richard M. (2019) Geology of the Josemaría Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Argentina: Formation, Exhumation, and Burial in Two Million Years. Economic Geology, 114 (3) 407-426 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4645 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | located in the Frontal Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, near the present-day northern limit...central Andes, and midway between the Maricunga and El Indio metallogenic belts. The deposit is centered...alteration, accompanied by minor high-sulfidation enargite mineralization, locally affected the southern...Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, ~8 km east of the border with Chile (lat 28°26'S, long 69°32'W)...high-sulfidation epithermal deposits of the Maricunga and El Indio metallogenic belts and, along with nearby porphyry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EconomicGeolog!t Vol 78, 1985. pp $48-,352 ENARGITE-BEARING MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS HIGH IN PORPHYRY...6ND, England Characteristics Introduction The enargite-bearing massive sulfidedeposits conAlterationassemblages...remnant withinthem.Lateveinletsof fine-grained Salvador, Chile (Gustarsonand Hunt, 1975), Red openspaces pyriteare...irregularlybandedpyrite, and Massivepyrite depositscarrying enargite and/or crystals, are all characteristic. Native...constitutesa massivebody in its own acteristics of enargite-bearing massive sulfidedeposits rightat Bor (Jankovi•et |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EXPRESS LETTER HYPOGENE ALUNITE FROM THE EL SALVADOR DISTRICT, CHILE, INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR A BLIND PORPHYRY...late breccia bodies from the El Salvador porphyry copper district of Chile were recently dated. One alunite...44 to 43 Ma. Porphyry copper ores in the El Salvador district formed at about the same time as porphyry...associated with ~80% of the known copper ore of the district; they record waning stages of magmatism at 42...porphyry copper deposits in the remote El Salvador district of Chile began with Old Camp in 1951 and the |  | Zimmerman, Aaron, Stein, Holly J., Morgan, John W., Markey, Richard J., Watanabe, Yasushi (2014) Re–Os geochronology of the El Salvador porphyry Cu–Mo deposit, Chile: Tracking analytical improvements in accuracy and precision over the past decade. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 131. 13-32 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.01.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/locate/gca Re–Os geochronology of the El Salvador porphyry Cu–Mo deposit, Chile: Tracking analytical improvements...Abstract Sulfide minerals from the El Salvador porphyry Cu–Mo deposit, Chile, were dated by Re–Os geochronology...tennantite–pyrite Re–Os isochron along with tennantite–enargite–pyrite Os tracing of ore metals based on initial...represent the timing of main-stage mineralization at El Salvador. A five-point 187Re–187Os isochron for pyrite–tennantite...(42.4–42.0 Ma). A separate pyrite and tennantite–enargite pair containing significant common Os yields an |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrolytic alteration, culminating in pyrite ± enargite ± covellite in the shallow parts of the lithocaps...in magmatic arc settings. At the regional and district scales, the occurrence of many deposits in belts...central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003)...Los BroncesRío Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro de Pasco & Colquijirca Choquelimpie...Cerro Colorado Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri Chuquicamata dist. Koloula Frieda |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ileLtda., AvenidaPedrode Valdivia295, Santiago,Chile AND RICHARD H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill Park,HighgateVillage...and 28 ø S in the Andean Cordillera of northern Chile. After 10 yearsof exploration,three preciousmetal...c alteration,whichcarriesbarite, nativesulfur,enargite,andat La Pepa,high-grade,vein-type goldmineralizationof...38-2353.00 1238 Au PORPHYRY,MARICUNGA BELT, CHILE 1239 and west of Marte which compriseadvancedargillic...gold-silver-copperprogressivelysouthwardand ends about latitude (enargite-gold) depositfrom 1976 to 1978, intensive 27ø30' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dredmetersof the 12 majorporphyrycopperdeposits in Chile was substantiated furtherby Alpersand Brimhall ...supergene alunitefromthe Eseondida porphyry copper province. Indeed,perhaps onlytwoof thesemajordepositsdeposit(Fig...elsewhere in northern E1 Salvador(Gustafsonand Hunt, 1975) in northern Chile Chile,duringthe late Oligocene...0361-0128/96/1809/164-1655.00 164 CHILEAN Cu PROVINCE: OXIDATION & ENRICHMENT in controlling anyagedifferences...ANGELINA 3' ½'*• I ß CHILE ?5 ø ,,,,)ARGENTINA ) 43.31 23 SanMiguel de Tucum•n (CERRO CAMPANA)I:::•C |  | Gustafson, L. B., Orquera, W., McWilliams, M., Castro, M., Olivares, O., Rojas, G., Maluenda, J., Mendez, M. (2001) Multiple Centers of Mineralization in the Indio Muerto District, El Salvador, Chile. Economic Geology, 96 (2) 325-350 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.96.2.325 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Mineralization in the Indio Muerto District, El Salvador, Chile LEWIS B. GUSTAFSON,† 5320 Cross Creek...89511 WALTER ORQUERA, CODELCO-Chile, Division Salvador, El Salvador, Chile MICHAEL MCWILLIAMS, Department...AND MARCELLO MENDEZ CODELCO-Chile, Division Salvador, El Salvador, Chile Abstract The porphyries that...that formed copper deposits in the Indio Muerto district include both 44 Ma rhyolitic subvolcanic intrusions...intruding host andesite at the northeast end of the district. Very weak Cu but much stronger Mo mineralization |  | Bendezú, Ronner, Page, Laurence, Spikings, Richard, Pecskay, Zoltan, Fontboté, Lluís (2008) New 40Ar/39Ar alunite ages from the Colquijirca district, Peru: evidence of a long period of magmatic SO2 degassing during formation of epithermal Au–Ag and Cordilleran polymetallic ores. Mineralium Deposita, 43 (7) 777-789 doi:10.1007/s00126-008-0195-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New 40Ar/39Ar alunite ages from the Colquijirca district, Peru: evidence of a long period of magmatic SO2...alunite crystals from the large Miocene Colquijirca district in central Peru. Combined with previously published...Spikings : L. Fontboté Section des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland e-mail: Ronner...Bendezu@terre.unige.ch R. Bendezú Sociedad Minera El Brocal S. A. A., Lima, Peru L. Page Department of...systems, including Chuquicamata, El Teniente, Butte, La Escondida, and Cerro de Pasco (Ossandón et al. 2001; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SulfurIsotopes in thePorphyryCopperDeposit at E1Salvador,Chile C•:l•US W. FmL•) •N•) LEW•S B. GUST•FSON Abstract...representativeof mineralization in time and spaceat E1 Salvador. The hypogenesulfates(mean +10.75o; range +7...temperature,and chemical condidepositat E1 Salvador,Chile, by Gustarsonand tions at various stagesof...Many of the mineralsusedin this sulfur Muerto district. A variety of geologicarguments isotope, investigation...porphyry-type environments. Our interpretations of the E1 Salvador data have benefited enormouslyby the recent contributionsof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Porphyry-Epithermal Transition: Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile JOHN L. MUNTEAN†,* AND MARCO T. EINAUDI Department...Pepa districts in the Maricunga belt of northern Chile contain advanced argillic alteration zones that...zones of vuggy residual quartz that can contain enargite or, at higher elevations, barite. Of the three...we investigated the Maricunga belt of northern Chile, where numerous districts have zones of advanced...in northern Chile about 700 km north of Santiago (Figs. 1, 2), is a metallogenic province of Miocene age |  | | Report (issue) | | assemblages which are pyriterich such as at El Salvador, Chile; Rodalquilar, Spain and Goldfield, Nevada...steam-heated environments, such as those at the Tolfa district, Italy and Marysvale, Utah, and numerous modern...alunite, and zunyite, and later gold, pyrite and enargite. Acidsulfate alteration assemblages also occur...stages in the porphyry-copper deposit at El Salvador. Chile. In the examples studied, magmatic-hydrothermal...by reconnaissance data on samples from several mining districts and predictions about the origin of the |
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