Latitude: 27°22'15"S
Longitude: 66°16'48"W
Porphyry gold and copper deposit, owned (as of Sept. 2004) by Minero Aconcagua (Canada) and BHP Minerals (UK).
Has estimated total reserves of 731 Mt with 0.5% Cu, 0.23 g / t Au and 0.03% Mo
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46 entries listed. 40 valid minerals.
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References
- Landtwing, Marianne R.; Dillenbeck, Eric D.; Leake, Martin H.; Heinrich, Christoph A. (2002): Evolution of the breccia-hosted porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit at Agua Rica, Argentina: progressive unroofing of a magmatic hydrothermal system. Economic Geology 97, 1273-1292.
- Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2005): Porphyry Copper Deposits of the World: Database, Map, and Grade and Tonnage Models. USGS Open-File Report 05-1060.
- Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2008): Porphyry copper deposits of the world: Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008. US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155.
- FRANCHINI, Marta et al. Alterationand mineralization along the central section of the Agua Rica deposit(27º26'S-66º16'O), Catamarca. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. [online]. 2009, vol.64, n.3, pp. 391-408
- Marta Franchini, Agnes Impiccini, David Lentz, Francisco Javier Ríos, Sol O'Leary, Josefina Pons, Abel Isidoro Schalamuk (2011): Porphyry to epithermal transition in the Agua Rica polymetallic deposit, Catamarca, Argentina: An integrated petrologic analysis of ore and alteration parageneses. Ore Geology Reviews 41, 49-74.
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