 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geologyof the Los PelambresPorphyryCopper Deposit, Chile RICHARD H. SILLITOE Abstract The Los ?elambresporphyry...locatedin the Andean Cordillera of CoquimboProvince, Chile, is related to an Upper Miocene tonalite stock which...somequartz. Supergenealteration is little developedat the Los Pelambresdeposit,becauseof its relatively recent...supergeneeffectsare absent. In the light of recent studies, Los Pelambres would seem to be a typical and relativelysimpleexampleof...porphyrycopper-typemineralization. Introduction Los Pelambres is located in the Andean Cordillera IN view |  | | Book | | label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Copper-Molybdenum and CopperGold Deposits at Los Pelambres, Central Chile JosĂ© PerellĂł, Richard H. Sillitoe,...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the RĂo Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of Worldâs Greatest...Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern Chile Geology of...N. Moreto, AndrĂ© Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | complete porphyry coppersystems. Examples from Chile, Argentina, and elsewhereare used to aid in the...al extensionsas great as 8 km. At Chuquicamata,Chile, a major high-anglefault may have cut the porphyry...porphyry systemis believedto be exposedat Los Loros, Chile. There a zone of molybdenum-rich and copp...erodedstratovolcanoes, as at Cerro Marquez in northern Chile. Such zones are interpreted as the columns of a...particularlywell exemplifiedby the Los Pelambresdeposit(Fig. 2) in Chile (Sillitoe, 1973). Knowledgeof the |  | | Journal (issue) | | reached more than 3,300 mm as measured at Phang Nga province meteorological station (Szczucinski et al. 2006)...tin belt, Na khon Si Thammarat Geol 2:195-202 province, Southern Zarcinas BA, Pongsakul P, McLaughlin... in stream sediments from the semiarid Coquimbo Region, Chile R. Oyarzun - J. Oyarzin - J. Lillo - H...out in the three main watersheds of the Coquimbo Region of Chile. This mountainous semiarid realm occupies...Universidad de La Serena, Casilla 554, La Serena, Chile H. Maturana Departamento de Minas, Facultad de |  | Maydagan, L., Franchini, M., Chiaradia, M., Dilles, J., Rey, R. (2014) The Altar Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) Deposit (Argentina): A Complex Magmatic-Hydrothermal System with Evidence of Recharge Processes. Economic Geology, 109 (3) 621-641 doi:10.2113/econgeo.109.3.621 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Cordillera Principal of southwest San Juan province (Argentina). Altar is a complex magmatic-hydrothermal...the Cordillera Principal of southwest San Juan province, Argentina, which corresponds to the southern...The world-class porphyry Cu-Mo deposits of Los Pelambres and PachĂłn occur 25 km to the south (Fig. 1)...Rincones de Araya, Quebrada de la Mina, Yunque, Los Azules, and Los Bagres (Fig. 1; Mpodozis and Cornejo, 2012)...States Chile Papua, Indonesia Mongolia Argentina Argentina Dominican Republic El Indio belt, Chile El Indio |  | Maydagan, L., Franchini, M., Rusk, B., Lentz, D. R., McFarlane, C., Impiccini, A., Rios, F. J., Rey, R. (2015) Porphyry to Epithermal Transition in the Altar Cu-(Au-Mo) Deposit, Argentina, Studied by Cathodoluminescence, LA-ICP-MS, and Fluid Inclusion Analysis. Economic Geology, 110 (4) 889-923 doi:10.2113/econgeo.110.4.889 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | located in the Andean Main Cordillera of San Juan Province (Argentina), is characterized by the superposition...deposits in the Andean Main Cordillera of San Juan Province (31Âș29'S, 70Âș28'W), Argentina, is an excellent...The ore potential of this region of the San Juan Province (Argentina) is highlighted by the discovery of...Rincones de Araya, Quebrada de la Mina, Yunque, Los Azules, and Los Bagres Sur (Mpodozis and Cornejo, 2012; Fig...Cretaceous) Frontal Cordillera Paleozoic basement Los Bagres Sur Los Azules (10-8 Ma) Rincones de Araya Piuquenes |  | | Report (issue) | | Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits.........................deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg in...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central...much as about 100°C for samples from El Teniente, Chile. When binned in 10°C intervals, the median reported...several intrusive stages related to the El Salvador, Chile, porphyry copper deposit, described fluids associated |  | Romero, BĂĄrbara, Kojima, Shoji, Wong, Chilong, Barra, Fernando, VĂ©liz, Walter, Ruiz, Joaquin (2011) Molybdenite Mineralization and Re-Os Geochronology of the Escondida and Escondida Norte Porphyry Deposits, Northern Chile. Resource Geology, 61 (1) 91-100 doi:10.1111/j.1751-3928.2010.00150.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Escondida Norte Porphyry Deposits, Northern Chile BĂĄrbara Romero,1,2 Shoji Kojima,1 Chilong Wong,2...del Norte, 2Minera Escondida Ltd, Antofagasta, Chile and Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona...variable overall period spanning 1 to 5 m.y. Keywords: Chile, geochronology. Escondida district, molybdenite...fault system in northern Chile (Fig. 1), and is the largest copper-producing mine in the world with more...Antofagasta, Chile. Email: skojima@ucn.cl *Present address: Departamento de GeologĂa, Universidad de Chile, Plaza |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | giant Mio-Pliocene RĂo Blanco-Los Bronces porphyry CuâMo cluster, Central Chile: new UâPb (SHRIMP II) and...Cu and 0.02 % Mo) porphyry system, the RĂo Blanco-Los Bronces deposit incorporates at least five hypabyssal...Blanco and Los Bronces mines in the north, through the Don Luis mine, to the Sur Sur mine, La Americana...Americana and Los Sulfatos in the south. The new geochronology data, which now include data on different molybdenite...GeologĂa, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Casilla 12518, Santiago, Chile e-mail: kdeckart@cec.uchile |  | | Book (volume) | | existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology...localised in the U.S. âSouth-westâïŒ and in northern Chile and southern PeruïŒand were Cu-Mo orebodies (Gilmour...Cook and Porter;all in this publication) and in Chile, Argentina and Peru in South America (see Camus;...Chuquicamata, El Abra, La Escondida and El Teniente in Chile, Cerro Colorado in Panama, Grasberg in Indonesia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exploitable concentrations of Cu (203 Mt: Los Bronces-RĂo Blanco, central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009)...2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003), and the second largest of Au (129 Moz:...Reko Diq Cotabambas Toquepala & Cuajone Los Pelambres Los BroncesRĂo Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg...to global-scale anomalies for Cu (e.g., northern Chile-southern Peru, southwestern North America) or Au...belt and an intra-arc fault zone: the northern Chile part of the central Andean middle Eocene to early |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | porphyry copper deposit (NE Isfahan), Central Province of Iran S.Z. Afshooni a,â, H. Mirnejad a, D. Esmaeily...subgroup), and lesser amounts of calcite, sericite, albite, pyrite, Fe-oxides, and clay minerals. Pyroxene...chlorite, chlorite ± sericite ± albite ± pyrite, and epidote ± albite, respectively (Fig. 7a). Biotite... Hanover (CuâAu) (Jacobs and Parry, 1979), Los Pelambres (CuâMo)(Taylor, 1983), and Santa Rita (Cu) (Parry...negative values than those for Bingham, Hanover, Los Pelambres and Santa Rita. The Kahang porphyry system with |  | Zarasvandi, Alireza, Rezaei, Mohsen, Sadeghi, Martiya, Lentz, David, Adelpour, Mansour, Pourkaseb, Hooshang (2015) Rare earth element signatures of economic and sub-economic porphyry copper systems in UrumiehâDokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA), Iran. Ore Geology Reviews, 70. 407-423 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.01.010 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Razak volcanic succession (40Ar/39Ar age of albite 37.5±1.4; Hassanzadeh, 1993) is the main host rock...Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, southeast of Bam in Kerman Province (Fig. 1). The intrusives at Reagan are extended...porphyritic intrusions of the Los Pelambres giant porphyry copper deposit in central Chile (Reich et al., 2003)...with La Gloria barren porphyry system, the Los Pelambres is characterized by absence of Eu anomalies...of productive and barren porphyry systems in Los Pelambres and La Gloria are comparable with those of low-mineralized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cu-(Mo) deposit located in the San Rafael Massif, Province of Mendoza, Argentina (Figure 1a). This region...deposits of El Teniente, Los Pelambres, and Rio Blanco-Los Bronces in Chile (Figure 1b). A previous study...world-class Miocene-Pliocene porphyry Cu-Mo deposits in Chile. (c) Detailed geologic and alteration map of San... and tremoliteâactinolite with minor titanite, albite, prehnite, and disseminated magnetite. Chlorite...K-feldspar and quartz and minor tremolite, actinolite, albite, and magnetite (Figure S1b). 3.2 | Main stage: |  | Chang, Jia, Li, Jian-Wei, Selby, David, Liu, Jia-Cheng, Deng, Xiao-Dong (2017) Geological and Chronological Constraints on the Long-Lived Eocene Yulong Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Eastern Tibet: Implications for the Lifespan of Giant Porphyry Cu Deposits. Economic Geology, 112 (7) 1719-1746 doi:10.5382/econgeo.2017.4527 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K-feldspar granite porphyry (KGP), and (3) quartz albite porphyry (QAP). The vein formation, Cu-Mo mineralization...granite porphyry (KGP) elevation 1004 (m) Quartz albite porphyry (QAP) SWW 9 Dated porphyry intrusions...al. (1995) noted that the MGP is cut by a quartz albite porphyry (QAP), which is several meters wide and...MGP = monzonitic granite porphyry, QAP = quartz albite porphyry bio = biotite, ksp = K-feldspar, plag...porphyry (KGP) Kaolinite overprint 500 Quartz albite porphyry (QAP) Moderate-weak potassic alteration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | copper-rich, tourmaline-bearing breccia pipe in central Chile: petrologic, fluid inclusion and stable isotope...Pliocene RıÌo Blanco-Los Bronces copper deposit in the high Andes of central Chile. This breccia pipe,...lesser amounts of bornite and anhydrite. An open pit mine, centered on this breccia pipe, has a current production...Santiago, Chile Present address: C. Holmgren Carlos Silva VildoÌsola 9895-I, La Reina, Santiago, Chile ïŹuid...sealing and rebrecciation. Keywords Andes Ă Breccia Ă Chile Ă Copper Ă Tourmaline Introduction Tourmaline-bearing |  | SimĂłn, Valeria, Arnosio, Marcelo, Trumbull, Robert B., Caffe, Pablo, Rocholl, Alexander, Sudo, Masafumi, Lucassen, Friedrich, Huidobro, Facundo (2021) Geology, geochemistry and geochronology of Lindero porphyry gold deposit in the Southern Puna plateau, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 105. 103047pp. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103047 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | porphyry gold deposits in the 69 Maricunga belt, Chile, and with the porphyry copper deposits of Argentina...porphyry copper deposits in the frontal-arc setting of Chile, notably by the lack 71 of an adakite-like signature...uncommon. They were defined in the Maricunga belt of Chile in the early 79 1980s (Vila et al., 1991; Vila...level in the Southern Puna plateau, Salta 105 Province, Argentina (latitude 25°04â55â S, longitude 67°46â45â...Lindero, Fortuna 108 Silver Mines Inc., began the mine construction in 2018 and has estimated to begin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vol. 86, 1991, pp. 1187-1205 Gold Metallogeny of Chile RICHARD an Introduction H. SILLITOE 27 WestHill...poorlymineralized. Paucityof golddepositsin the coastalzoneof Chile, concentration of highsulfidationand porphyry-typedepositsin...copper and silver enrichmentin northernand central Chile which took place during the Oligoceneand early Mioceneand...CHILEhasbeena modestgoldproducerfor the last central Chile (24o-37 Ăž S; Flores, 1942; Ruiz et al., fivecenturies...andDunkerIcy, 1991),butonly 1965). Of these,only Los Mantosde Punitaqui,E1 duringthe last decadehas the |  | | Report (issue) | | black are solids at room temperature Modified from Los Alamos National Laboratory Chemistry Division; available.............................................. P20 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ P25 Mine Closure...................................................... P11 Pie chart showing world rhenium mine production in 2012, by country and percent of world...substitute for molybdenum in molybdenite. Annual world mine production of rhenium is about 50 metric tons. Nearly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dykes (Sarcheshmeh porphyries) in the Sarcheshmeh mine area. Fig. 3 shows the Sarcheshmeh porphyry, several...of the Sarcheshmeh mine Samples from intrusive rocks outside of the Sarcheshmeh mine have been collected...difïŹcult to discriminate clearly the host rocks in the mine due to pervasive alteration. Waterman and Hamilton...Petrography of igneous rocks inside of the Sarcheshmeh mine Samples collected from the intrusions close to deposit...stockworks are composed of mainly quartz, K-feldspar, albite, anhydrite, and biotite. Pyrite and chalcopyrite |  | Cannell, J., Cooke, D. R., Walshe, J. L., Stein, H. (2005) Geology, Mineralization, Alteration, and Structural Evolution of the El Teniente Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit. Economic Geology, 100 (5) 979-1003 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.100.5.979 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Andean Cordillera in the central Chile porphyry belt (Fig. 1). Central Chile is one of the worldâs most richly...CODELCO, is the worldâs largest underground copper mine, containing 12.4 billion metric tons (Gt) at 0.62...Miocene copper deposits of the central Chile belt (Los Pelambres, Atkinson et al., 1996; and RĂo Blanco...porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits occur at Los Pelambres and RĂo BlancoLos Bronces, and copper-molybdenum...deposit, based on a structural database compiled by mine geologists (4,337 vein orientation measurements |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization in Peru and Chile and the time of the subduction of the Nazca and...ore-bearing porphyry of the giant Los Pelambres Cu-Mo deposit in Chile. All this suggests that the ore...there is the North Mongolian porphyry Cu-Mo ore province including the large Erdenetiyn-Ovoo deposit and...magnetite. Phenocrysts (15â20%) in syenite-porphyry are albite-oligoclase, K-feldspar, and biotite (chloritized...an isotope composition trend with a steep (North Chile deposits) to vertical (Gangdese and Yulong ore fields |  | Vry, V. H., Wilkinson, J. J., Seguel, J., Millan, J. (2010) Multistage Intrusion, Brecciation, and Veining at El Teniente, Chile: Evolution of a Nested Porphyry System. Economic Geology, 105 (1) 119-153 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.1.119 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Intrusion, Brecciation, and Veining at El Teniente, Chile: Evolution of a Nested Porphyry System V. H. VRY...Australia 3CODELCO DivisiĂłn El Teniente, Rancagua, Chile Abstract The El Teniente copper-molybdenum deposit...premineralization biotite and/or K-feldspar ± quartz-anhydrite-albite-magnetite-actinolite-epidote veins that formed...copper deposits in the region that also include Los Pelambres and Rio BlancoLos Bronces (Fig. 1). It is the...and classification work has been carried out by mine geologists. The earliest â Corresponding author: |  | Sillitoe, Richard H., Devine, Fionnuala A.M., Sanguinetti, Martin I., Friedman, Richard M. (2019) Geology of the JosemarĂa Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Argentina: Formation, Exhumation, and Burial in Two Million Years. Economic Geology, 114 (3) 407-426 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4645 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | located in the Frontal Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, near the present-day northern limit...Cordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina, ~8 km east of the border with Chile (lat 28°26'S, long 69°32'W)...BOLIVIA er u - Chile Tambo Alturas ch Los Azules El Altar - Piuquenes 32°S Los Pelambres - El PachĂłn...Casale JosemarĂa lt fau Los H e l a d os M og ote sf au lt Refugio CHILE belt A R G E N T I N A...Nueva Esperanza La Coipa 28° 29° tr Po Los Helados Los Helados 30° El Salares Norte Filo del |  | Xiao, Bing, Chen, Huayong, Hollings, Pete, Han, Jinsheng, Wang, Yunfeng, Yang, Juntao, Cai, Keda (2017) Magmatic evolution of the TuwuâYandong porphyry Cu belt, NW China: Constraints from geochronology, geochemistry and SrâNdâHf isotopes. Gondwana Research, 43. 74-91 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.09.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | including diorite, plagiogranite porphyry, quartz albite MA porphyry and quartz porphyry, respectively...melt-mantle peridotite interaction. The quartz albite porphyry and quartz porphyry are characterized...economically most important porphyry Cu district in the province, SC R containing ~650 million tons grading 0...geochronology and petrogenesis of the diorite, quartz albite porphyry and quartz porphyry within the deposits...for the plagiogranite porphyry, diorite, quartz albite porphyry, quartz porphyry and volcanic rocks in |
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