Cerro Negro-Tunillas-Pocitos, Cristales

Past Producer in Chile with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105973
MRDS ID W026336
Record type Site
Current site name Cerro Negro-Tunillas-Pocitos, Cristales

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -71.04121, -29.1558 (WGS84)
Elevation 1400

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chile(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Chile

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Apatite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -71.04121, -29.1558

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLIKE BODIES
  • General form VEINLIKE BODIES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Los Cristales

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • BETWEEN 2 AND 20 MILLION M.T. EQUIVALENT 60 % FE ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RUIZ FULLER, CARLOS, 1965 , GEOLOGIA Y YACIMIENTOS METALIFEROS DE CHILE (GEOLOGY AND METAL DEPOSITS OF CHILE): CHILE INST. GEOL. INV., 305 P., TABLES. (SPANISH) ( 430 ) R858G

  • Deposit

    RUIZ, C. AND PEEBLES, F., 1988, YACIMIENTOS METALIFEROS DE CHILE: SANTIAGO, 334 P.

  • Deposit

    LAVAL, R., 1953, DISTRITO DE CRISTALES: INEDITO (DEMIPE)

  • Deposit

    DIAZ, ET AL., 1980, MAPA METALOGENICO PRONOSTICO DE LA III REGION: CORPORACION DE FOMENTO DE LA PRODUCCION, SANTIAGO (5 VOLS.)

  • Reserve-Resource

    RUIZ FULLER, 1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBHORIZONTAL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1973 Cooper, Margaret (Shaffer, Glenn L.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1990 Williams, William C. University of Arizona

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.