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Berenguela Copper Deposit - 101

Producer in Puno, Peru with commodities Copper, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068752
MRDS ID W001994
Record type Site
Current site name Berenguela Copper Deposit - 101
Alternate or previous names Lampa
Related records 10157858

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -70.51624, -15.6144 (WGS84)
Elevation 4500
Relative position 15 KM NE OF SANTA LUCIA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Puno(province)

Peru(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Peru Puno

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION FROM METALLOGENIC MAPS OF PERU 1969 NO. 101

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -70.51624, -15.6144
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, ELONGATE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1677

Mining district

District name Santa Lucia Region

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Optioned By Charter Consolidated
  • Type Owner
    Owner Lampa Mining

Comments on the production information

  • SEE SEPARATE REPORT ON LAMPA DEPOSIT FOR PRODUCTION DATA, POTENTIAL AND RESERVE ESTIMATES.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CSI (COPPER STUDIES) 4/20/73 REPORTS 12 MIL TONS 1.37% CU
  • INFO LACKING 12/72 TO MAKE ESTIMATE. REPORTER ESTIMATES POTENTIAL RESOURCES MAY BE EQUAL TO ESTIMATED RESERVES
  • TOTAL RESOURCES IS PROBABLY MUCH GREATER THAN INDICATED. BUT INFO LACKING FOR ESTIMATE 12/72 BY REPORTER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK 1968 VOL. 4, P. 588-589

  • Deposit

    USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK 1970 PERU PREPRINT

  • Deposit

    PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969

  • Deposit

    LA MINERIA EN EL PERU, ANUARIO MINERO COMERCIAL 1977, P. 45

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, 1993, PERUVIAN COPPER: MINING MAGAZINE, APRIL 1993, P. 182.

  • Deposit

    BOGGIO, M.S., 1985, PERU: A MINING COUNTRY INGEMMET V. 3, P. 188.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LIMITED AT DEPTH BY THICK LAYER OF GYPSUM AND LATERALLY BY UNMINERALIZED LIMESTONES.
Deposit RECORD TC38598 HAS BEEN DELETED AND DATA HAS BEEN COMBINED WITH THIS RECORD.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1972 Goudarzi, Gus H. (Theune, C. T.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1993 Restrepo, Pedro U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1993 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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