Mine detail: Petaquilla Copper

Previously called 'Cerro Petaquilla'

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Location

Lat / long:

8.85197, -80.57316

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead
Secondary:	Gold, Silver
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Goethite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Jarosite, Magnetite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, OVOID
Discovery year:	1967

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic),Intermediate Volcanic Rock
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	E-W Parallel To Axis Of Isthmus, General Nw-Se Elongation Of Ore Bodies Suggests Faulting And Fracturing Of Similar Attitude.
Alteration processes:	(1) Silica-Potassic With Quartz, Kspar, Biotite, Sericite; (2) Argillic With Kaolin, Sericite, Quartz; (3) Propylitic With Chlorite, Epidote, Pyrite, Albite, Uralite, Sericite And Carbonate

References

MRDS	W001529
DEP	10068466
Reference	{Deposit:: UNDP, 1969, PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION, CERRO PETAQUILLA, UN PUBLICATION NO 3 JULY 1969, P. 92.}{Deposit:: UNDP, 1968, CERRO PETEQUILLA, UN PUBLICATION NO. 2, P10, MAY 1968.}{Deposit:: FERENCIC, ANTE 1970, PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION IN PANAMA, MIN. DEPOSITA, V. 5 PP 383-389.}{Deposit:: DGRM-SGAB, 1988, PROYECTO INVENTARIO MINERO, MAPA METALOGENETICO: INFORME NO. 88-7.}{Deposit:: KESLER, S.E., SUTTER, J.F., ISSIGONIS, M. J., JONES, L.M., AND WALKER, R.L., 1977, EVOLUTION OF PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION IN OCEANIC ISLAN ARC: PANAMA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 72, NO. 6, P. 1142-1153.}{Deposit:: DANIELSON, VIVIAN, 1994, POSITIVE PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR PETAQUILLA: THE NORTHERN MINER, V. 80, NO. 26, AUGUST 29, 1994, P. 1-2.}{Deposit:: 1965 GEOCHEM UNDP, POSITIVE ANOMALIES}{Deposit:: 1968 DRILL UNDP, ORE RESERVE COMPUTATION}{Deposit:: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, MINERAL RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS NOS 2(MAY 1968)AND 3(JULY 1969), PANAMA}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Reserve-Resource:: INTERNATIONAL WROUGHT COPPER COUNCIL REPORT, APRIL 1972. DANIELSON (1994)}
Reporter	Page, Norman J., Irving, Earl M., King, Robert U.