Santa Clara

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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105966
MRDS ID W026296
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Clara
Related records 10182662

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -70.3012, -26.52915 (WGS84)
Elevation 950

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chile(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Chile

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitic

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -70.3012, -26.52915

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLIKE, IRREGULAR
    Strike N 15 W
    Dip 70 VE
    Length 300M
    Width 15M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • LESS THAN 2 MILLION METRIC TONS OF EQUIVALENT 60 % FE ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 35M

Comments on development

  • DRILLED IN 1967

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    RUIZ FULLER, 1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Klemic, Harry; 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.