Los Fierros

Producer in Coquimbo, Chile with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Reserves and resources
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10207301
MAS/MILS ID 3370210028
Record type Site
Current site name Los Fierros

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -71.29955, -29.41417 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Coquimbo(province)

Chile(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Chile Coquimbo

Comments on the location information

  • THE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE BEARINGS ARE FOR THE TOWN OF CRUZ GRANDE. THE GRADE FIGURE REPRESENTS AN AVERAGE. THE ACTUAL GRADES RANGE FROM 25-30 PERCENT FE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -71.29955, -29.41417

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Cominex
    Year 1970

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1966
    Indicated 4000000mt ore
    Demonstrated 4000000mt ore
    Total resources 4000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Iron Fe 27.5 wt-pct Iron Trace 1966

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SURVEY OF WORLD IRON ORE RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC

  • Deposit

    AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS: NEW YORK, UNITED NATIONS PUBLICA-

  • Deposit

    TIONS, 1970, P. 329-335.

  • Deposit

    SUTULOV, A., CHILEAN IRON ORE BOOMING; EXPORTS GROW TO

  • Deposit

    JAPAN, EUROPE, N. AMERICA: WORLD MINING, V. 2, NO. 12,

  • Deposit

    1966, P. 8-12.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-OCT-1983 Reed / Ewu, Chiang U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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