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San Vicente Alto

Occurrence in Chile with commodities Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Reserves and resources
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096457
MRDS ID W026271
Record type Site
Current site name San Vicente Alto
Alternate or previous names San Vincente Alto M. Del Laco

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -67.51447, -23.81251 (WGS84)
Elevation 4267

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chile(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Chile

Comments on the location information

  • RUIZ AND PEEBLES (1988) REPORT LOCATION AS 23-48-36S AND 067-30-30W. ON NW FLANK OF VOLCANO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Alunite Gangue
Apatite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Scapolite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic, Propylitic, Silcic

Analytical data

Result PYROCLASTIC ORE (1 SAMPLE IN PPM): 118 TI, 951 V, < 3 CR, 492 AL, 5610 MG, 570 MN, 255 NI, 152 CO, 120 ZN, 16 CU, 1120 SI.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -67.51447, -23.81251
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 250M
    Width 200M
    Depth to bottom 40M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GENERAL SUCESSION FROM BOTTOM TO TOP IN ANDESITIC LAVA (UP TO 30 M THICK), PYROCLASTIC ORE ( UP TO 30 M THICK), MAGNETITE LAVA (UP TO 50 M THICK), PYROCLASTIC UNIT WITH FRAGMENTS OF MASSIVE ORE (ABOUT 20 M THICK), AND ANDESITIC FLOW. ORE BODIES ARE SURROUNDED BY NARROW METASOMATIC AUREOLES (UP TO 1 M THICK IN LAVA BUT WIDER IN TUFFS) WHERE HOST ROCK IS TRANSFORMED TO PYROXENE, SCAPOLITE, QUARTZ AND GARNET.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1958

Mining district

District name El Laco

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1965
    Total resources 20000000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Iron Fe 60 wt-pct Iron Major 1965

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POTENTIAL RESOURCES LISTED AS GREATER THAN 20 MILLION M.T. OF ORE EQUIVALENT 60 % FE
  • POTENTIAL RESOURCES LISTED AS GREATER THAN 20 MILLION M.T. ORE.

Reference information

Comments on the other database information

  • RECORD NUMBER W026295 IS A POTENTIAL DUPLICATE OF THIS RECORD; RECORD NUMBER TC03753 IS A POTENTIAL DUPLICATE OF THIS RECORD

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    NYSTROM AND HENRIQUEZ (1994).

  • Deposit

    RUIZ FULLER, CARLOS, 1965 , GEOLOGY AND METAL DEPOSITS OF CHILE, INSTITUTE OF GEOL. INV., CHILE, 307 P. TABLES (SPANISH) ( 430 ) R858G

  • Deposit

    FRUTOS, J. AND PINCHEIRA, M., 1986, FICHAS METALOGENICAS DE YACIMIENTOS MINERALES METALICOS CHILENOS, IN FRUTOS, J., OYARZUN, J., AND PINCHEIRA, M., EDS., GEOLOGIA Y RECURSOS MINERALES CHILENOS: UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION, CONCEPCION, P. 841-888.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    HENRIQUEZ, F., AND MARTIN, R., 1978, CRYSTAL GROWTH IN MAGNETITE FLOW AND FEEDER DIKES, EL LACO, CHILE: CAN. MIN., V. 16, P. 581-589.

  • Deposit

    BORIC, R., DIAZ, F., AND MAKSAEV, V., 1984, COMPLEMENTO MAPA METALOGENICO, II REGION: GERENCIA DE DESARROLLO, SANTIAGO (12 VOLS.)

  • Deposit

    WEGNER, R., 1979, DIE MAGNETIT LAVASTROME VON EL LACO IN CHILE, UNDIHERE BEGLEISTENDEN GESTEINE: MEMORIA MINERLOGISTA, UNIV. ALBERT LUDWIG, FREIBERG, BREMEN, 89 P.

  • Deposit

    HENRIQUEZ, F., 1981, EL YACIMIENTO EL LACO (ABS.): PRIMERO COLOQUIO SOBRE VOLCANISMO Y METALOGENESIS: UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE, ANTOFAGASTA, P. 92-94.

  • Deposit

    NYSTROM, J.O., AND HENRIQUEZ, F., 1994, MAGMATIC FEATURES OF IRON ORES OF THE KIRUNA TYPE IN CHILE AND SWEDEN: ORE TEXTURES AND MAGNETITE GEOCHEMISTRY: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 89, P. 820-839.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    RUIZ FULLER, 1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS DEPOSIT IS ONE OF A GROUP OF 6 MAJOR DEPOSITS IN AN AREA ABOUT 7 KILOMETERS LONG AND 3 KM. WIDE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Klemic, Harry; Shaffer, Glenn L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1989 Williams, William C. University of Arizona
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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