 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Porphyry Gold-Copper Deposit, Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile* RICHARD H. SILLITOE,1,† JUSTIN TOLMAN,2,** AND...the Maricunga gold-silver-copper belt of northern Chile, was discovered in 2007 beneath postmineral cover...overprint, although the underlying chalcopyrite-bornite assemblage was mainly too deep to be affected....28°S in the high volcanic Andes of the Atacama Region, northern Chile (Fig. 1). The belt, some 200 km long...-26°30’ ESPERANZA Argentina Chile Antofagasta LA COIPA Fig. 2 PUREN Copiapó Maricunga belt CASPICHE |  | 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...Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, ~8 km east of the border with Chile (lat 28°26'S, long 69°32'W)...70° 68°W 69°40’ o PERU S BOLIVIA er u - Chile Tambo Alturas ch Los Azules El Altar - Piuquenes...os M og ote sf au lt Refugio CHILE belt A R G E N T I N A Lobo-Marte La Pepa Taguas Pascua-Lama...late Oligocene-Miocene volcanic belt of northern Chile and contiguous Argentina, showing the age assignment |  | | 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...metallogenic belts Introduction (Fig. 1): (1) along the Atacama Fault System; (2) along the Inca de Oro Belt; (3) |  | | 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...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...rocks are overlain by Mesozoic to early Tertiary Marte Lobo Volcan Copiapo La Pepa PERU Volcan Laguna |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Refugio District, Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile JOHN L. MUNTEAN†,* AND MARCO T. EINAUDI Department...the porphyry gold deposits of the Maricunga belt, Chile (Vila and Sillitoe, 1991). For this reason it is...prospects and deposits in the high Andes of northern Chile (Vila and Sillitoe, 1991; Fig. 1). Zones of hydrothermally...porphyry gold-(copper) deposits (Refugio, Aldebaran, Marte, Lobo). Since 1980, an aggregate geologic resource...Segerstrom (1968), Zentilli (1974), La Coipa 27 o Marte Lobo Volcan Laguna Refugio 0 20 50 0 Volcan |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | east of the main Andean porphyry copper belt of Chile. The deposit consists of a composite stock of dacitic...composite gold sulfide grains (chalcopyrite, rarely bornite), show a close correlation of ore grades in sample...and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...include the porphyry copper deposits of El Salvador, Chile (Gustafson and Hunt, 1975), Ann Mason, Nevada (Dilles...de la Alumbrera as Argentina’s first major metal mine (Guilbert, 1995; Wall, 1997; Ulrich, 1998). Recently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | east of the main Andean porphyry copper belt of Chile. The deposit consists of a composite stock of dacitic...composite gold sulfide grains (chalcopyrite, rarely bornite), show a close correlation of ore grades in sample...and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...include the porphyry copper deposits of El Salvador, Chile (Gustafson and Hunt, 1975), Ann Mason, Nevada (Dilles...de la Alumbrera as Argentina’s first major metal mine (Guilbert, 1995; Wall, 1997; Ulrich, 1998). Recently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vol. 86, 1991, pp. 1187-1205 Gold Metallogeny of Chile RICHARD an Introduction H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill...s,includingnewly recognizedgold-onlyexamplesat Marte and Lobo, accompany quartzstockworks developedin...poorlymineralized. Paucityof golddepositsin the coastalzoneof Chile, concentration of highsulfidationand porphyry-typedepositsin...copper and silver enrichmentin northernand central Chile which took place during the Oligoceneand early Mioceneand...CHILEhasbeena modestgoldproducerfor the last central Chile (24o-37 ø S; Flores, 1942; Ruiz et al., fivecenturies |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with the main chalcopyrite mineralization. Later bornite deposition took place from a less saline (18–27...Norrbotten ore province Æ Sweden Introduction Aitik is Sweden’s largest copper mine and one of Europe’s...had been produced since mining began in 1968. The mine has a remaining reserve of 226 Mt of ore with an...of Gällivare, in the northern Norrbotten ore province (Fig. 1). Several other epigenetic copper–gold...ore deposits occur in the region; the entire ore province produces about 90% of the total tonnage of ore |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | erosion. Low sulfidation-state chalcopyrite ± bornite assemblages are characteristic of potassic zones...central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003)...(Nena) Wafi-Golpu Gaby El Salvador Potrerillos Marte & Caspiche Taca Taca Bajo Bajo de la Alumbrera...to global-scale anomalies for Cu (e.g., northern Chile-southern Peru, southwestern North America) or Au...HI B AR C A 26° El Salvador Potrerillos COPIAPÓ ARGENTINA LA SERENA 30° Lineament Fault Porphyry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Porphyry Gold Deposit at Marte, Northern Chile TOMkS VILA, Minera Anglo American Chile Ltda., Avenida Pedro...Pedro de Valdivia 295, Santiago,Chile RICHARD H. SILLITOE, 27 West Hill Park, Highgate Village, London N6...CopiapS,Chile AND ENRIQUEVITERI** Minera AngloAmericanChile Ltda., ChaKarcillo840, CopiapC,Chile Abstract...porphyrygolddeposithasbeendocumentedfor the firsttime at Marte in the Maricunga belt of the AndeanCordillera,northernChile...Santiago,Chile. ** Presentaddress:Avenida11 de Septiembre2250, Oficina1304, Santiago,Chile. 0361-01 |  | Simón, Valeria, Arnosio, Marcelo, Trumbull, Robert B., Caffe, Pablo, Rocholl, Alexander, Sudo, Masafumi, Lucassen, Friedrich, Huidobro, Facundo (2021) Geology, geochemistry and geochronology of Lindero porphyry gold deposit in the Southern Puna plateau, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 105. 103047pp. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103047 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | porphyry gold deposits in the 69 Maricunga belt, Chile, and with the porphyry copper deposits of Argentina...porphyry copper deposits in the frontal-arc setting of Chile, notably by the lack 71 of an adakite-like signature...uncommon. They were defined in the Maricunga belt of Chile in the early 79 1980s (Vila et al., 1991; Vila...worldwide (Sillitoe, 2000), such as Maricunga (e.g., Marte and Lobo; Vila and Sillitoe, 83 1991), the Javorie...level in the Southern Puna plateau, Salta 105 Province, Argentina (latitude 25°04’55” S, longitude 67°46’45” |  | | Catalog/List | | piece. 1. GOLDEN BARYTE (9cm l 8cm l 7an) Meil:Je Mine, EU:o Co1U1ty, Nn-ada, USA Highly lusirou, brighl...CINNABAR ON DOLOMITE (3.5cm l 3cm l Ian) Xowidlow Province. China Sleoder modified beugooal cochineal - red...RHODONITE A QUARTZ (12cm 18cm x 4an) Clw,n,cM Mine, Dos� Mayo Province, Huanon Departement, Peru AA )OU can -...rare indeed and this recall fiDd a1 lbe Cbl11111cu mine produced some very fine material. This ,pecimen...£95 13. PYROMORPHITE (8cm x 5cm x 3cm) Pc/1c/ojad Mine. Kurdja/1, Bulgaria A lovely display spccunon with |  | Koděra, Peter, Kozák, Jaroslav, Brčeková, Jana, Chovan, Martin, Lexa, Jaroslav, Jánošík, Michal, Biroň, Adrián, Uhlík, Peter, Bakos, František (2018) Distribution and composition of gold in porphyry gold systems: example from the Biely Vrch deposit, Slovakia. Mineralium Deposita, 53 (8) 1193-1212 doi:10.1007/s00126-018-0798-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | including the classical Maricunga belt in N Chile (e.g., Lobo, Marte, Maricunga (previously Refugio); Vila...high (> 900) fineness and in solid solution in bornite and, to a lesser degree, chalcopyrite (Kesler et...argillic alteration. Gold is commonly correlated with bornite-bearing assemblages, which result from the selective...selective precipitation and breakdown of auriferous bornite at elevated temperatures (> 600 °C) (Simon et al...as free grains of high fineness (910 to 990). At Marte, gold grains were found in the argillized groundmass |  | Vikentyev, I. V., Mansurov, R. Kh., Ivanova, Yu. N., Tyukova, E. E., Sobolev, I. D., Abramova, V. D., Vykhristenko, R. I., Trofimov, A. P., Khubanov, V. B., Groznova, E. O., Dvurechenskaya, S. S., Kryazhev, S. G. (2017) Porphyry-Style Petropavlovskoe Gold Deposit, the Polar Urals: Geological Position, Mineralogy, and Formation Conditions. Geology of Ore Deposits, 59 (6) 482-520 doi:10.1134/s1075701517060058 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | = 0.05 m Calcite 32 Hematite 34 Magnetite Bornite + Pyrite I Chalcopyrite –log f O2 36 20 38 II... Fort Knоx (United States, Alaska7, 8 Lobo Marte (Chile) 4, 5, 6 Suprasubduction island-arc 26 Gold...Zn, Mn, Ni, As, Co, W, Te, Pb Diorite Lobo Marte (Chile) 4, 5, 6 Pipelike stock 2.51 Argil*, K-fsp*...in 50 μm in size Py, Chp, quartz Native gold Bornite, molybdenite, hematite, sphalerite, galenite, enargite...arsenopyrite, hematite, marcasite, bornite, fahlore Chalcopyrite, bornite, covellite, pyr- Magnetite, pyrite |  | | 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...of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known Concentration...Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern Chile Geology of...N. Moreto, André Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | selvages and vein halos (Harris and Golding, 2002). Bornite occurs with the best-developed K-silicate alteration...2003). Gold and minor silver inclusions occur in bornite. Phyllic alteration halos occur around discrete...E26, combined with access to extensive underground mine developments, has permitted the systematic mapping...sets were documented from the 9,800 RL of the E26 mine (Fig. 2 inset). Quartz vein and fault plane orientations...per meter of quartz veins mapped on the 9,800 RL mine development at E26. B. Contour plot of the total |  | | Book (volume) | | existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....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...Cook and Porter;all in this publication) and in Chile, Argentina and Peru in South America (see Camus;...Chuquicamata, El Abra, La Escondida and El Teniente in Chile, Cerro Colorado in Panama, Grasberg in Indonesia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization at the El Teniente Cu-Mo Porphyry Deposit, Chile Edward T. Spencer,1,† Jamie J. Wilkinson,1,2 Robert...Teniente, Rancagua, Chile Abstract The El Teniente Cu-Mo porphyry deposit, Chile, is one of the world’s...quartz-chalcopyrite veins and (type 8) chalcopyrite-anhydrite ± bornite veins with sericitic alteration halos. High-precision...veins and breccias. These are abundant at shallow mine levels and show a close spatial relationship with...created a distinct Mo-rich grade halo at shallow mine levels. With the exception of minor mineralization |  | Henley, Richard W., King, Penelope L., Wykes, Jeremy L., Renggli, Christian J., Brink, Frank J., Clark, David A., Troitzsch, Ulrike (2015) Porphyry copper deposit formation by sub-volcanic sulphur dioxide flux and chemisorption. Nature Geoscience, 8 (3) 210-215 doi:10.1038/ngeo2367 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralization comprises chalcopyrite (CuFeS2 ), bornite (Cu5 FeS4 ) and digenite (Cu2 S; refs 1,13) plus...Ertsberg Cu–Au skarn deposits29 . b, High-grade bornite (bn)–chalcopyrite (ccp)–anhydrite (anh) ore. c...superstructures (for example, Marte, Chile1 ), whereas at others (for example, Escondida, Chile, 38–36 Ma) surface...P. The porphyry copper deposit at El Salvador, Chile. Econ. Geol. 70, 857–912 (1975). 13. Cooke, D. R |  | Mambwe, Pascal, Shengo, Michel, Kidyanyama, Théophile, Muchez, Philippe, Chabu, Mumba (2022) Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal for Enhancing Cobalt Recovery. Minerals, 12 (3) 295 doi:10.3390/min12030295 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Congo; shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine Geology, Ruashi Mining S.A, Lubumbashi, Democratic...Minor carrollite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite are present in unweathered fragments. The cobalt...spherocobaltite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, carrollite and bornite. Based on the Cu (100x AS Cu/TCu) and Co ratio...magnesite and chlorite [30,31]. Pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, siegenite and carrollite are usually...of of Congo Mine) Ruashi Cu-Co deposits in 1911. In 1920, the same mining company Congo Mine) andand Ruashi |  | Hu, Wentao, Tian, Kai, Zhang, Zhengyang, Guo, Jiuchuan, Liu, Xinwei, Yu, Hongdong, Wang, Huajun (2021) Flotation and Tailing Discarding of Copper Cobalt Sulfide Ores Based on the Process Mineralogy Characteristics. Minerals, 11 (10) 1078 doi:10.3390/min11101078 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and bornite. Only 18.51% of copper and 94.44% of cobalt in the ore occurred in carrollite. bornite. Only...copper and cobalt minerals are shown in Table 5. Bornite, chalcopyrite, and carrollite were associated with...Cu Chalcopyrite Pyrite Bornite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Carrollite Bornite Chalcopyrite Gangue Limonite...concentrate 2.93% of Cu Gangue 14.59% of Cu Bornite, chalcopyrite,Tailing, and carrollite were associated...oreare arecarrollite, carrollite, chalcopyrite, and bornite. Most of these sulfide minerals closely coexist |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | referredto asa "porphyry' gold" deposit (e.g., Marte, Chile: Vila et al.,1991).Fe•vsuch WHEREAS thetransport...1989). dissolved inotherCu-bearing minerals (e.g.,bornite) iseasier Withoutmoredetailed fieldinformation...otherphases, inparticular,Cu-Fesulfide minerals (iss,bornite, ehaleopyrite). March25, 1996;January16, 1997 4...Theporphyry gold tional,v. 8, p. 468-481. depositat Marte,northernChile:ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, v. 86, p. 1271Shock |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ®eld work in the Kwekwe district near the Indarama mine, approximately 200 km southwest of Harare, Zimbabwe...Zimbabwe and, on a world scale, represents a major province of vein and shear-zone hosted gold- and gold-antimony...gold production has not been recorded. The Ford mine is located about 10 km north of the town of Kwekwe...and processed at the nearby Indarama/Broomstock mine site. Gold is extracted by carbon-in-pulp cyanide...with a recovery of 90%. Mineralization at the Ford mine is not spatially related to major veins as are many |  | | Book (chapter) | | variegated copper = bornite, Chester 280 (1896). variegated copper ore = bornite, Dana 6th, 77 (1892)...(1892). variegated ore = bornite, Thrush 1197 (1968). variegated pyrites = bornite, Dana 6th, 77 (1892). variegated...variegated pyritous copper = bornite, Egleston 54 (1892). variegated ruby = red gem Cr-rich corundum...violet copper glass = bornite, Bukanov 225 (2006). violet copper ore = bornite, Bukanov 225 (2006). violetfarbigen...violettes Kupfererz = bornite, Doelter IV.1, 152 (1925). violettes Kupferglas = bornite, Hintze I.1, 904 (1901) |
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