 | 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) | | Geology 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...Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5 Abstract Chuquicamata, in northern Chile, is the world’s greatest copper orebody...contain the overwhelming proportion of copper at Chuquicamata in all alteration zones and assemblages, including |  | Barra, Fernando, Alcota, Hugo, Rivera, Sergio, Valencia, Victor, Munizaga, Francisco, Maksaev, Victor (2013) Timing and formation of porphyry Cu–Mo mineralization in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile: new constraints from the Toki cluster. Mineralium Deposita, 48 (5) 629-651 doi:10.1007/s00126-012-0452-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | porphyry Cu–Mo mineralization in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile: new constraints from the Toki cluster...km south–southwest of the Chuquicamata–Radomiro Tomic mines in northern Chile. These prospects occur in...Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile e-mail: fbarrapantoja@ing.uchile.cl F....Center of Excellence (CEGA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile H. Alcota : S. Rivera Exploraciones Mineras...Mineras Andinas S.A., Santiago, Chile V. Valencia School of Environment, Washington State University, Pullman |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dredmetersof the 12 majorporphyrycopperdeposits in Chile was substantiated furtherby Alpersand Brimhall ...porphyry copper province. Indeed,perhaps onlytwoof thesemajordepositsdeposit(Fig. 1). (Chuquicamata and MM) wouldbe...1986;Alpersand Brimhall,1988)and two from placeat Chuquicamata, andprobably elsewhere in northern E1 Salvador(Gustafsonand...Salvador(Gustafsonand Hunt, 1975) in northern Chile Chile,duringthe late Oligocene to earlyMioceneinterval...0361-0128/96/1809/164-1655.00 164 CHILEAN Cu PROVINCE: OXIDATION & ENRICHMENT in controlling anyagedifferences |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Northern Chile PATRICIO CUADRA C.† AND GONZALO ROJAS S. Superintendencia Geología, Codelco-Chile División...División Radomiro Tomic, Chile Abstract The main copper oxide minerals in the Radomiro Tomic deposit are atacamite...porosity are greater in the Upper Oxide unit, whereas hematite, chalcocite, and molybdenite concentrations and...north of the Chuquicamata mine and 40 km north of the town of Calama in the Antofagasta region of northern...northern Chile (Fig. 1), at an elevation of 3,000 m above sea level. The deposit was discovered in 1952 |  | | 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 |  | Rivas-Romero, Constanza, Reich, Martin, Barra, Fernando, Gregory, Daniel, Pichott, Sergio (2021) The Relation between Trace Element Composition of Cu-(Fe) Sulfides and Hydrothermal Alteration in a Porphyry Copper Deposit: Insights from the Chuquicamata Underground Mine, Chile. Minerals, 11 (7) 671 doi:10.3390/min11070671 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper Deposit: Insights from the Chuquicamata Underground Mine, Chile Constanza Rivas-Romero 1,2, *, Martin...Copper Deposit: Insights from the Chuquicamata Underground Mine, Chile. Minerals 2021, 11, 671. https://doi...Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago 8370450, Chile; mreich@cec.uchile.cl (M.R...Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370450, Chile Department of Earth Sciences, University...Casa Matriz, Huérfanos 1270, Santiago 8370450, Chile; spich001@codelco.cl Correspondence: constanzarivasromero@gmail |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1062-1085 Geology oftheE1AbraPorphyry CopperDeposit, Chile JOZSEF A•IBRUS Abstract The E1 Abra porphyryCOl)per...porphyryCOl)per deposit,located42 km northof Chuquicamata, was minedon a smallscalein the past,andseveralstudies...1972to 1975,the Corporaci6nNacionaldel Cobrede Chile completedan evaluation programknownas the E1 Abra...located in E1 Loa Province, Chile, 42 kilometers north of the Chuquicamataopen-pit mine (Fig. 1). It is...is emplacedin the samemountainrange as Chuquicamata at 4,000 meters above sea level. Two thirdclassroadsconnectE1 |  | Correa, Karen J., Rabbia, Osvaldo M., Hernández, Laura B., Selby, David, Astengo, Marcelo (2016) The Timing of Magmatism and Ore Formation in the El Abra Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile: Implications for Long-Lived Multiple-Event Magmatic-Hydrothermal Porphyry Systems. Economic Geology, 111 (1) 1-28 doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.1.1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Magmatism and Ore Formation in the El Abra Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile: Implications for Long-Lived...Universidad de Concepción, Concepción CP 4030000, Chile 2 Instituto GEA, Casilla 160-C, Universidad de...de Concepción, Concepción CP 4030000, Chile 3 Department 4 Superintendencia of Earth Sciences, University...Geología, Sociedad Contractual Minera El Abra, Calama CP 1390000, Chile Abstract Zircon LA-ICP-MS and CA-TIMS...molybdenite Re-Os geochronology for the El Abra porphyry copper deposit (Chile) document a ~8.6 Ma protracted |  | Sapiains, Pía, Figueroa, Valentina, Hayashida, Frances, Salazar, Diego, Menzies, Andrew, González, Cristián, Loyola, Rodrigo, Murphy, Beau, González, Juan, Parcero-Oubiña, César, Troncoso, Andrés (2021) Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals through the Case Study of Pukara de Turi. Minerals, 11 (12) 1402 doi:10.3390/min11121402 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas...Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000, Chile; vfigueroa@ucn.cl Department of Anthropology, University...Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 7800284, Chile; dsalazar@uchile.cl (D.S.); atroncos@uchile...de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile; jgonzal@ucsc.cl Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio...Correspondence: psg004@ucn.cl Abstract: Northern Chile is home to the world’s largest copper ore deposits |  | Pizarro, H., Campos, E., Bouzari, F., Rousse, S., Bissig, T., Gregoire, M., Riquelme, R. (2020) Porphyry indicator zircons (PIZs): Application to exploration of porphyry copper deposits. Ore Geology Reviews, 126. 103771pp. doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103771 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Católica del Norte, Av. Angamos 0610, 7 Antofagasta, Chile. 8 2 GET, IRD-CNRS-CNES-UPS, 14 avenue...geochemical characteristics of zircons collected from Chuquicamata, Mirador, 31 Esperanza and Escondida PCDs...lower Oligocene metallogenic 32 belt of northern Chile, were determined in order to validate the use of...Eocene to Oligocene metallogeny belt, 48 Northern Chile, Porphyry Copper Deposit, non-mineralized intrusive...body. 49 50 1. Introduction 51 In northern Chile and southern Peru, porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | application to porphyry copper deposits of northern Chile Received: 22 October 2001 / Accepted: 25 July 2002...ChuquicamataEl Abra porphyry copper belt of northern Chile have been measured in situ by excimer laser ablation...This study is based on the Los Picos-Fortuna/Pajonal-El Abra igneous complex, a suite of spatially and temporally...intrusions within the Chuquicamata-El Abra porphyry copper belt of northern Chile. The complex is cut by...strike-slip fault, the West Fault, with the Pajonal-El Abra intrusive suite 348 displaced ca. 35 km to |  | Leybourne, Matthew I., Cameron, Eion M. (2008) Source, transport, and fate of rhenium, selenium, molybdenum, arsenic, and copper in groundwater associated with porphyry–Cu deposits, Atacama Desert, Chile. Chemical Geology, 247 (1) 208-228 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.10.017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | associated with porphyry–Cu deposits, Atacama Desert, Chile Matthew I. Leybourne a,⁎, Eion M. Cameron b b a...(Spence) in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which is buried beneath 30–180 m of Miocene piedmont...208–228 209 Fig. 1. Regional geology of northern Chile, showing major ore deposits in relation to the geologic...the northeast-southwest dashed line is the Antofagasta– Calama lineament (ACL), as discussed in the text...volcanic terrain and geothermal waters in northern Chile have elevated As concentrations, which contaminate |  | | 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 |  | Riveros, K., Veloso, E., Campos, E., Menzies, A., Véliz, W. (2014) Magnetic properties related to hydrothermal alteration processes at the Escondida porphyry copper deposit, northern Chile. Mineralium Deposita, 49 (6) 693-707 doi:10.1007/s00126-014-0514-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Escondida porphyry copper deposit, northern Chile K. Riveros & E. Veloso & E. Campos & A. Menzies...In the Escondida porphyry Cu deposit of northern Chile, each hydrothermally altered lithology is characterized...Universidad de Atacama, Copayapu 485, Copiapó, Chile e-mail: karl.riveros@uda.cl K. Riveros : E. Veloso...0610, Antofagasta, Chile W. Véliz Minera Escondida Ltd, Avenida de la Minería 501, Antofagasta, Chile...porphyry Cu deposit in northern Chile, the largest Cu-producing mine in the world. The Escondida deposit |  | | 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) | | Signature of Porphyry Copper Systems in Northern Chile and Its Geologic Implications GERARDO BEHN,† FRANCISCO...FRANCISCO CAMUS, PEDRO CARRASCO CODELCO-Chile, Huerfanos 1270, Santiago, Chile AND HUNTER WARE Ware Exploration...acquired for base metals exploration in northern Chile between lat 19° 45' S and 27° 15' S revealed a pattern...porphyry copper deposits grouped in clusters within a district is explained as being related to a common parental...explorations for ferrous and nonferrous metals in northern Chile have been making increasing use of regional aeromagnetic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Plutonic Complex of the Coastal Cordillera, Northern Chile José Zambra1,*, Shoji Kojima1, Sergio Espinoza1...Catholic University, Antofagasta and 2Minera Tocopilla, Barros Arana, Tocopilla, Chile Abstract The Angélica...the Coastal Cordillera of the Tocopilla district, Northern Chile, and those are classified fundamentally...intruding into the formation. In the Tocopilla district there is a peculiar copper deposit named Angélica...since 1960 by ENAMI (National Mining Company of Chile). Because of recent exploitation of the deposit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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)...Toquepala & Cuajone Los Pelambres Los BroncesRío Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro...Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri Chuquicamata dist. Koloula Frieda River dist...dist.(Nena) Wafi-Golpu Gaby El Salvador Potrerillos Marte & Caspiche Taca Taca Bajo Bajo de la Alumbrera |  | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | METALLOGENETIC CARLOS RUIZ PROVINCES F. AND GEORGE OF CHILE, S. A. • E. ERICKSEN CONTENTS PAGE Abstract........... ABSTRACT The metalliferousdepositsof Chile tend to be restrictedto well defined metallogeneticprovinces...synthesis of the knowledgeof the ore depositsof Chile basedon studiesnow beingcarriedout and on publishedand...ore deposits. Most of the known ore depositsof Chile are in the northern half of the country; relativelyfew...1960) indicatethe magnitudeof presentday mining in Chile: Copper Molybdenum Lead Zinc Gold Silver Mercury |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SUPERGENE SPHALERITE RIMS AT THE CHUQUICAMATA PORPHYRY DEPOSIT (NORTHERN CHILE) REVISITED: EVIDENCE FOR A HYPOGENE...Casilla 28, San Pedro de la Paz 413000, Biobio, Chile 3 Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University...sphalerite rimming copper minerals occurring in Chuquicamata in a mineral assemblage including typically...microprobe analyses, suggest that all sphalerite in Chuquicamata is hypogene. A scenario, backed by observations...al., 1997) occur mainly as sphalerite in the Chuquicamata porphyry deposit. The complex intergrowth textures |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arlesheim, Switzerland Articles Collector’s diary: Chuquicamata and the Nitrate Pampa ........................in Redfield, Iowa, to begin the long journey to Chile. The diary o f his three-month expedition in search...Smithsonian makes interesting reading. O Traveling to Chile in 1935 was a major undertaking, beginning with...—minerals that he would most likely encounter in Chile —and to obtain his passport and Chilean visa. From...Tocopilla, Chile. The voyage took from July 27 to August 10. The entire collecting trip in Chile lasted from |  | Oyarzun, Roberto, Márquez, Alvaro, Lillo, Javier, López, Ivan, Rivera, Sergio (2001) Giant versus small porphyry copper deposits of Cenozoic age in northern Chile: adakitic versus normal calc-alkaline magmatism. Mineralium Deposita, 36 (8) 794-798 doi:10.1007/s001260100205 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | porphyry copper deposits of Cenozoic age in northern Chile: adakitic versus normal calc-alkaline magmatism...Abstract Cenozoic magmatic activity in northern Chile led to the formation of two contrasting porphyry...hosting huge porphyry copper deposits (e.g., Chuquicamata) of adakitic anity. Although the ®rst belt...examples such as Chuquicamata (5.8 Gt at 0.55% Cu), La Escondida (2.3 Gt at 1.15% Cu), or El Abra (1.45 Gt...at 0.55% Cu) form a N±S-trending metallogenic province of Late Eocene±Early Oligocene age (Sillitoe 1988; |
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