El Jardín is the major mine within a group of several veins, minor shafts and prospects; it is an abandoned Cu-Ag hydrothermal deposit. The mineralization is mainly hosted in rhyolitic tuffs, and was limited within the upper ignimbrite level.
References
- Segestrom, K. (1959) "Cuadrángulo Los Loros"; provincia de Atacama; carta geológica de Chile, vol. 1, number 1.
- Paine, J., C. LLaumet (1981) "Distrito argentífero de Lomas Bayas", Stgo de Chile.
- Lortie, R.B. & Clark, A.H. (1987): Strata-bound cupriferous sulfide mineralization associated with continental rhyolitic volcanic rocks, northern Chile: 1. The Jardin copper-silver deposit. Econ. Geol. 82, 546-570.
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