 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Radomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile TERRY ARCURI† Shell Exploration and Production Company...chloride. Moreover, atacamite mineralization at Chuquicamata (48–75 ppm Br, δ37Cl = –0.1 to +0.2‰) and Mina...Tupiza 21 Radomiro Tomic 22 Chuquicamata Calama 23 Antofagosta 24 Chile Salta Argentina 70 69 ...Location map of the Radomiro Tomic deposit in northern Chile. author: e-mail, terry.arcuri@shell.com 0361-...Atacama Desert of northern Chile approximately 150 km northeast of Antofagasta (Fig. 1). The deposit lies |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY OF THREE SULPHATE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN CHILE* Moss' Menr C. BaNov, HaraardUniaersity,Combri'd'ge...of Chuquicamata, euerena, and Alcaparrosa, three sulphate deposits near calama, in Northern chile. The...of these minerals are known only from northern chile and twelve are known only from these three deposits...study of the mineralogy of Chuquicamata, euetena and. Alcaparrosa in Northern chile forms the basis of this...this paper. The writer worked for five years at Chuquicamata and had ample opportunity to study the deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the oxide zone of copper deposits in northern Chile: involvement of deep formation waters? Eion M. Cameron...deposits in northern Chile, whereas in similar deposits elsewhere, it is rare. In Chile, it has generally...Supergene enrichment of copper deposits in northern Chile extended over a long period, 44 to 9 Ma, being terminated...Keywords Atacamite . Copper deposits . Northern Chile Editorial handling: B. Lehmann E. M. Cameron (*)...Department of Geology, Universidad de Chile, P.O. Box 13518-21, Santiago, Chile e-mail: cpalacio@ing.uchile.cl |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | •EOLO•ISTS JUNE-JULY, 1944 OXIDATION No. AT CHUQUICAMATA, 4 CHILE. O. W. JARRELL. CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction........... 255 General Geological Features at Chuquicamata .................... 258 Location and Physiography...Mineralization ........... The Groundwater at Chuquicamata .............................. The Relation...oxidation at Chuquicamata. Following is a description of the general geological features at Chuquicamata which...zone of partial oxidation which over much of the mine separatesthe sulphideand oxidized orebodies. Finally |  | | Book | | label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...and CopperGold Deposits at Los Pelambres, Central Chile José Perelló, Richard H. Sillitoe, Constantino...History of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known...Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposits of the Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida...Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern Chile Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit |  | Masterman, G. J., Cooke, D. R., Berry, R. F., Walshe, J. L., Lee, A. W., Clark, A. H. (2005) Fluid Chemistry, Structural Setting, and Emplacement History of the Rosario Cu-Mo Porphyry and Cu-Ag-Au Epithermal Veins, Collahuasi District, Northern Chile. Economic Geology, 100 (5) 835-862 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.100.5.835 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cu-Ag-Au Epithermal Veins, Collahuasi District, Northern Chile GLENTON J. MASTERMAN,†,* DAVID R. COOKE...deposit is located in the Collahuasi district of northern Chile. It comprises high-grade Cu-Ag-(Au) epithermal...1,022 Mt at 0.93 percent copper occurs in the district at the nearby Ujina and Quebrada Blanca porphyry...zoning of precious metals and sulfosalts at the district scale. Introduction MANY porphyry copper deposits...ET AL. 1 to 3 km (Sillitoe, 2000). In northern Chile, several of the major Eocene-Oligocene porphyry |  | | Report (issue) | | 95.2(1)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerro Pintados, Chile. 4.223 (100), 4.207 (80), 3.647 (59), 3.964 (32)...30.87 Total [100.33] 100.00 (1) Cerro Pintados, Chile; original total 100.36% (2) NaAl(SO4 )2 • 6H2 O...kröhnkite, halite, alunogen, meta-alunogen, potassium alum, epsomite, halotrichite, halite, gypsum, anhydrite...Distribution: In Chile, from Cerro Pintados, 80 km southeast of Iquique, Tarapacá; in Antofagasta, at the Compania...Compania mine, eight km south of Sierra Gorda; from Alcaparrosa, near Cerritos Bayos, southwest of Calama; |  | Sáez, Alberto, Cabrera, Lluís, Garcés, Miguel, Bogaard, Paul van den, Jensen, Arturo, Gimeno, Domingo (2012) The stratigraphic record of changing hyperaridity in the Atacama desert over the last 10Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 355. 32-38 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.029 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile d Departament de Geoquı́mica, Petrologia...and magnetostratigraphic data from Quillagua and Calama basins (Atacama desert) indicate that the stratigraphic...within the sequence (Table 1). 3. Quillagua and Calama basins records The Quillagua Basin ( 211 22140’1S...presently draining to the Pacific Ocean through the Loa River Canyon (Fig. 1). From late Miocene to Pleistocene...contributions from the south corresponding to paleo-Loa River deposits also occur. From old to young, the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Feature articles Kammererite from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey .............................J. F. Poullen Famous Mineral Localities: Chuquicamata, Chile ........... 321 by Robert B. Cook Departments...Record Inc. COVER: KAMMERERITE from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey. The crystals, from the collection...(Columbiana, Alabama). The owner o f the fine Old Yuma mine vanadinite pictured on page 195 is Ray DeMark; Ray...y 270 W est n e a r A n im al W o n d erlan d . T el. 501-767-4800 Hot Springs, Arkansas The M ineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Andacollo copper–gold district, La Serena, Chile: preliminary data from the porphyry copper and possible...Oyarzun The Andacollo mining district is located in the Coquimbo region of Chile at 30°14’ south, 71°06’ west...landscape (Fig. 1). Current mining activity in the district is concentrated on copper and gold. These metals...deposits are analysed. Geology of district The Andacollo district is mostly confined to a fault-bounded...placer-type deposits (Fig. 1). The geology of the district consists largely of the volcanic–volcaniclastic |  | | Report (issue) | | sulfate-rich hydrothermal ore deposit. Association: Halite, anhydrite, kainite, epsomite (oceanic salt deposits);...hohmannite, metavoltine, metasideronatrite (Chuquicamata, Chile). Distribution: From Vesuvius, Campania,...Leopoldshall-Stassfurt district, and at Aschersleben; large crystals from the Ellers mine, Neuhof, near Fulda...Fulda, Hessen; in the Adolfsglück mine, Schwarmstedt, Lower Saxony. At Kalusz, Stebnyk, and Golyn, Ukraine...Qarhan salt lake, Qinghai Province, China. At Chuquicamata, Antofagasta, Chile. Name: From the Greek for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | associated with porphyry-Cu deposits, Atacama Desert, Chile: Elemental and isotopic constraints on water sources...porphyry copper deposit, Atacama Desert, northern Chile, to study waterporphyry copper ore bodies interaction...recovered elsewhere in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile. In contrast, groundwaters recovered within and...Meigh et al., 1999). The Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the driest region on Earth, receives <10 mm/a rainfall..., 2003), ground and surface waters in northern Chile are highly variable in concentration of total dissolved |  | | Journal (issue) | | Australian Museum, Sydney • Antleriet van de Jomac mine, Utah • En veel MKA- en ander nieuws… Mineralogische...antleriet met carbonaatcyanotrichiet van de Jomac mine, Utah, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt...cerussiet-kristallen van de Proprietary Block 14 mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen...amphibole from the Kajlidongri manganese mine, Jhabua District, madhya Pradesh, India 428-440 Luminescence...porcelaneous datolite in Michigan's Lake Superior Copper District (2) : S. Keweenaw, Houghton and Ontonagon Co. |  | Wang, Fan, Michalski, Greg, Seo, Ji-hye, Ge, Wensheng (2014) Geochemical, isotopic, and mineralogical constraints on atmospheric deposition in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Chile. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 135. 29-48 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | atmospheric deposition in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Chile Fan Wang a, Greg Michalski a,⇑, Ji-hye Seo b, Wensheng...Atacama Desert. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, where the...Desert, major cities and copper smelters in the Antofagasta region (T1-a barren hillslope of the Morro Mejillones;...anorthite (CaAl2Si2O8); Gp: gypsum (CaSO4), H: Halite (NaCl) (listed from highest to lowest amount no...For example, T1 site has a significant amount of halite, while T10 site is mainly composed of anorthite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Zaldívar porphyry copper deposit, Northern Chile Eduardo Campos & Jan Wijbrans & Paul A. M. Andriessen...the Zaldívar porphyry copper deposit (Northern Chile) by applying a combination of different isotopic...Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile e-mail: edcampos@ucn.cl J. Wijbrans : P....Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, approximately 175 km SE of Antofagasta city (Fig. 1). The current proven...wt.% Cu, equivalent to 2.83 Mt of copper. Current mine production is 146,000 tonnes of copper per year |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | kroehnkite, Chuquicamata, Chile 3. X-ray diffraction data for ferrinatrite, La Campania, Antofagasta, Chile...pisanite, Chuquicamata, Chile 13. X-ray diffraction data for chalcanthite, Coquimbo, Chile 14. X-ray...sideronatrite, Chile 27. X-ray diffraction data for natrochalcite, Chuquicamata, Chile 28. X-ray diffraction...X-ray diffraction data for copiapite, Rammelsberg Mine, Harz, Germany 32. X-ray diffraction data for fibroferrite...johannite, Happy Jack Mine, Utah 36. X-ray diffraction data for zippeite, Happy Jack Mine, Utah 37. X-ray diffraction |  | | Book (volume) | | After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert............................................ 65 T he El T eniente M egabreccia D eposit，th e W o rld ’s L...the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology...localised in the U.S. “South-west”， and in northern Chile and southern Peru，and were Cu-Mo orebodies (Gilmour |  | | Report (issue) | | 1890(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Oficina Alemania, Chile. 10.29 (100), 3.456 (35), 2.865 (35), 2.594 (30)...35 Total 100.71 100.00 • (1) Oficina Lautaro, Chile. (2) Na3 (NO3 )(SO4 ) H2 O. Occurrence: Widespread...cavities in cemented regolith, in an arid region (Chile); in saline arid soil (Death Valley, California...mirabilite, epsomite, halite, anhydrite. Distribution: In Chile, in Antofagasta, from Oficina Lautaro...Lautaro, Pampa del Toro, Taltal district, in thick veins from Chuquicamata, and widespread in other nitrate |  | Fernandez-Turiel, J.L., Garcia-Valles, M., Gimeno-Torrente, D., Saavedra-Alonso, J., Martinez-Manent, S. (2005) The hot spring and geyser sinters of El Tatio, Northern Chile. Sedimentary Geology, 180 (3) 125-147 doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.07.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The hot spring and geyser sinters of El Tatio, Northern Chile J.L. Fernandez-Turiel a,*, M. Garcia-Valles...siliceous sinter deposits of El Tatio geothermal field in northern Chile have been examined petrographically...setting: water temperature = 70–86 8C (boiling point at El Tatio: 4200 m a.s.l.); coarse laminated sinter macrostructure...Calothrix and diatoms (e.g., Synedra sp.) are abundant. El Tatio is a natural laboratory of great interest because...Opal; Cyanobacteria; Diatom; Geothermal system; Chile * Corresponding author. E-mail address: jlfernandez@ija |  | | Report (issue) | | epsomite, mirabilite, halite, gypsum. Distribution: In Chile, in the Tarapacá district, and elsewhere along...aggregating billions of tons; also at Chuquicamata, Antofagasta. Other studied occurrences include: in...in the Los Manos Cave, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. In the USA, in Death Valley and along the Armagosa |  | Li, Jianghanyang, Wang, Fan, Michalski, Greg, Wilkins, Benjamin (2019) Atmospheric deposition across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Compositions, source distributions, and interannual comparisons. Chemical Geology, 525. 435-446 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.07.037 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Atmospheric deposition across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Compositions, source distributions, and interannual...USA School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural...surface soil; however, three sites near the Chuquicamata mine showed slightly lower δ34Ssulfate values,...at: School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural...than 2007–2009. A buoy ~1500 km off the coast of Chile in Southern Pacific Ocean (Station 32ST0, National |  | Reich, Martin, Palacios, Carlos, Vargas, Gabriel, Luo, Shangde, Cameron, Eion M., Leybourne, Matthew I., Parada, Miguel A., Zúñiga, Alejandro, You, Cheng-Feng (2009) Supergene enrichment of copper deposits since the onset of modern hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Mineralium Deposita, 44 (5) 497-504 doi:10.1007/s00126-009-0229-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | onset of modern hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert, Chile Martin Reich & Carlos Palacios & Gabriel Vargas...critical role in making this the prime Cu-producing province of the world. Previously, this has been believed...Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile e-mail: mreich@ing.uchile.cl S. Luo : C...Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile with atacamite in supergene veins from...from Cu deposits cluster at ~240 ka (Chuquicamata), 130 ka (Mantos Blancos, Spence), and 80 ka (Mantos de |  | Garcia-Valles, M., Fernandez-Turiel, J.L., Gimeno-Torrente, D., Saavedra-Alonso, J., Martinez-Manent, S . (2008) Mineralogical characterization of silica sinters from the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile. American Mineralogist, 93 (8) 1373-1383 doi:10.2138/am.2008.2583 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | characterization of silica sinters from the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile M. Garcia-Valles,1,* J.L. Fernandez-Turiel...alkali chloride waters in the El Tatio geothermal field in northern Chile (22°20'S, 68°01'W), have been...opal-A/-CT and opal-CT are also present together with halite (NaCl), sylvite (KCl), and realgar (AsS). Accessory...Garcia-Valles et al.: Silica sinters from El Tatio Figure 1. Location of El Tatio geothermal field (based on...of the sinter deposits of the El Tatio geothermal field in northern Chile. These siliceous sinters have |  | | Book (volume) | | Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...crystal from the association with halite. Identified by IR spectrum and qualitative electron microprobe analysis...Colourless crystals from granular aggregate of halite. Identified by IR spectrum. Wavenumbers (cm1):...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless |  | | Report (issue) | | sublimate. Association: Halite, kainite, carnallite, polyhalite (marine salt deposits); halite, thénardite, mirabilite...Ischl and Hallstatt, Austria. In the Stassfurt district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. From Kaluszyn, Poland...Valley, Torrance Co., New Mexico. At Chuquicamata, Antofagasta, Chile. In the Mayo and Warcha mines, Salt |
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