Mine detail: El Salvador Mine

Previously called 'El Salvador'

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Location

Lat / long:

-26.25248, -69.57285

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Molybdenum
Ore:	Bornite, Brochantite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cuprite, Enargite
Gangue:	Anhydrite, Biotite, Gypsum, Pyrite, Specularite, Tourmaline
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1922

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1959 TO PRESENT
First production started:	1959

Geology

Host type:	Diorite,Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic),Andesite
Associated rock:	Latite Dikes;Quartz & Granodiorite;Fine Granodiorite;Andesite Undiff
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Broad Belt Of Intrusive Rhyolite Dikes And Porphyry Extends Sw Of Indio Muerto Peak, Forming A Major Structural Axis Along Which Mineralization Occurred. Along Falla Oeste
Tectonic:	Andean Cordillera And Batholith
Alteration processes:	Primary Alteration Observed In Deeper Levels (Biotization, Hydrothermal Alteration, Chloritization); Potassic, Phyllic, Propylitic

References

MRDS	W001538
DEP	10068472
Reference	{Deposit:: BEALL, J. V., 1969, COPPER IN THE ANDES: MIN. ENG. V. 21, NO. 11, P. 59-90}{Deposit:: ANACONDA CO STAFF, 1960, EL SALVADOR DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION: MINING ENG., V. 12, NO. 4, P. 339-382}{Deposit:: MCMAHON, A. D., 1965, COPPER A MATERIALS SURVEY, U.S.B.M. IC 8225 P-61}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL ANNUAL REVIEW, JUNE, 1969, P. 257-258.}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL ANNUAL REVIEW, JUNE, 1970, P. 299.}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL ANNUAL REVIEW, JUNE, 1972, P. 306-307.}{Deposit:: AMERICAN METAL MARKET, 1977, V. 85, NO. 150, P. 18.}{Deposit:: MINING ENGINEERING, 1960, P. 350.}{Deposit:: RUIZ, C. AND PEEBLES, F., 1988, YACIMIENTOS METALIFEROS DE CHILE: SANTIAGO, 334 P.}{Deposit:: SWAYNE, W., 1960, GEOLOGY OF EL SALVADOR: MINING ENGINEERING, 12, P. 344-348.}{Deposit:: GUSTAFSON, L., AND HUNT, J., 1975, THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT AT EL SALVADOR, CHILE: ECON GEOL. 70, 857-912.}{Deposit:: DIAZ, ET AL., 1980, MAPA METALOGENICO PRONOSTICO DE LA III REGION: CORPORACION DE FOMENTO DE LA PRODUCCION, SANTIAGO (5 VOLS.)}{Deposit:: SILLITOE, R.H., 1988, EPOCHS OF INTRUSION-RELATED COPPER MINERALIZATION IN THE ANDES: JOUR. S. AM. GEOL., 1, 89-108.}{Deposit:: FIELD, C.W., AND GUSTAFSON, L.B., 1976, OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPES IN THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT AT EL SALVADOR, CHILE: ECON. GEOL. 71, 1549-1559.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: DATA ARE FROM MINING JOURNAL ANNUAL REVIEWS, 1969, 1970, AND 1972 AND FROM MINING ENGINEERING, 1960. ALSO BLICK DURCH DIE WIRTSCHAFT 15.3.1977.}{Reserve-Resource:: AMERICAN METAL MARKET, 1977.}
Reporter	Davidson, Claire B., Theune, C.T., Williams, William C.