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Quellaveco Copper Deposit - 17

Prospect in Peru with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068779
MRDS ID W002029
Record type Site
Current site name Quellaveco Copper Deposit - 17

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -70.66346, -17.09768 (WGS84)
Elevation 3650
Relative position 15 KM NW TOQEPALA - 3 KM EAST OF TALA - NEAR CUAJONE COPPER DEPOSIT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Peru(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Peru

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION FROM METALLOGENIC MAP OF PERU, 1969 - NO. 17 - MOQUEGUA. 150 KM N OF TACNA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • OXIDE ORE OCCURS TO DEPTHS OF MORE THAN 400 M BUT SULFIDES ARE FOUND LOCALLY NEAR SURFACE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Copper Ore
Cubanite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Enargite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Jarosite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Potassic, Proplitic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 53
USGS model code 17
Deposit model name Porphyry Cu
Mark3 model number 4

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Quellaveco Formation
    Rock description Quellaveco Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -70.66346, -17.09768
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form OVAL SHAPE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • A Breccia Pipe Near The Center Of The Ore Body

Comments on the geologic information

  • RHYOLITE GAVE K/AR AGES 53-55, AVE 53.8 +/- 2.3 MA; UNALTERED GRANODIORITE, 52.7-58.1 MA; PROPYLITIC GRANODIORITE, 45.9-66.3 MA, PHYLLITIC GRANODIORITE 47-53 MA; QUARTZ LATITE DIKE, 51.1 +/- 2.1 MA. AVERAGE GRANODIORITE 53.6 +/- 11.6 MA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1936
Discoverer Cerro De Pasco

Mining district

District name Province Of Tacna

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Southern Peru Copper Corp.; Mantos Blancos
    First year 1993

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION. ACTIVE PROSPECT.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1974
    Total resources 400000000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 1 wt-pct Copper Major 1974
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1969
    Total resources 2000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.95 wt-pct Copper Major 1969
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Total resources 2000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.98 wt-pct Copper Major 1973
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1977
    Total resources 45000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.8 wt-pct Copper Major 1977
    Molybdenum Mo 0.14 wt-pct Molybdenum Trace 1977
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Total resources 178000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.68 wt-pct Copper Major 1993

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATED BY REPORTER TO BE AT LEAST TWICE THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PRESENT INDICATED RESERVES.
  • ESTIMATED BY REPORTER TO BE EQUIVALENT OF THE PRESENT INDICATED RESERVES.
  • SOME OF THE SURFICIAL ENRICHED ZONE ORE CONTAINS 1.5 TO 5.5% COPPER. ORE(1) PRIMARY SULFIDE MINERALIZATION; ORE(2) SECONDARY MINERALIZATION. ORE (3) RESERVES MOST CONSISTING OF SECONDARY SULFIDES.

Comments on development

  • MANTOS BLANCOS (ANGLO AMERICAN) BOUGHT PROPERTY FOR 12 MILLION US DOLLARS AND WILL INVEST 562 MILLION DOLLARS TO DEVELOP MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S.B.M. MINERAL YEARBOOK 1970 PERU PREPRINT

  • Deposit

    SIMONS F. S. 1960 THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERU UNPUBLISHED REPORT. P. 918 AND 926

  • Deposit

    MINISTERIO DE ENERGIA Y MINAS, 1969 ASPECTOS GENERALES DE LA METALOGENICA DEL PERU; MINISTERIA DE ENERGIA Y MINAS LIMA, PERU, 5 P.

  • Deposit

    PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969 5) BELLIDO BRAVO, E. AND MONTREUIL D., L., 1972, ASPECTOS GENERALES DE LA METALOGENIA DEL PERU, P. 64, ED. SERVICIO Y MINERIA, MINISTERIO DE ENERGIA Y MINAS, OCT. 1972

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    ZIMMERMAN, J-L., AND COLLADO, A.K., 1983, DETERMINATION PAR LA METHODE K/AR DE L'AGE DES INTRUSIONS ET DES MINERALISATIONS ASSOCIEES DANS LE PORPHYRE CUPRIFERE DE QUELLAVECO (SUD OESTE DU PEROU): MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, V. 18, P. 207-213.

  • Deposit

    LITTLE, M.L., 1993, EXPLORATION REVIEW- SOUTH AMERICA SEG NEWSLETTER, OCTOBER 1993, V. 15, P. 15.

  • Deposit

    1957 DIREXPL CERRO DE PASCO

  • Deposit

    1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS - UNPUBLISHED REPORT

  • Reserve-Resource

    CSI (COPPER STUDIES) REPORTS 4/20/73 201 MIL TONS 0.94% CU; 2) METAL JOURNAL, P. 294, 4/19/74

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SURFACE EXPRESSION COVERS AN ELLIPTICAL AREA 3.5 KM IN NW-SE DIRECTION BY 2.3 M IN NE-SW DIRECTION-EXPLORED AT DEPTHS OF 400 M.
Deposit SEE RECORD MOQ0029.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1973 Goudarzi, Gus H. (Theune, C. T.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1993 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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