| Location: | Apurimac, Peru, South America |
| Lat / long: | -14.09779, -72.34962 |
| dep_id: | 10068761 |
| mrds_id: | W002007 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Silver, Gold |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| ore: | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
| alteration: | Where Cut By Stock, The Mara Formation Is Altered To Hornfels |
| ore_ctrl: | Tactites At Contact Of Quartz Monzonite And Ferrobamba Limestone - Cross Folds Superimosed On Regional Fold Pattern Ore Containing More Than 3% Cu Is Always In The Polymineral Tactite Rather Than In Garnetite Or Epidotite. The Favorable Intrusive Quartz Monzonite Averages About 1.5 To 2% Cu. Ores Along Fracture Zones Average About 1% Cu. |
| Reporter: | Goudarzi, Gus H., Page, Norman J. |
| hrock_unit: | Gray Or Black Shale, Sandstone And Quartzite;Mara Formation, Red Shale, Siltstone, & Sandstone;Ferrobamba Limestone-Middle;Red To Maroon Shale, Shaly Sandstone And Sandstone Early Tertiary |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| arock_unit: | Andesitic And Basaltic Lavas Underlain By Tuff-Tertiary |
| arock_type: | Hornblendite |
| Structure: | North Trending Assymetric Folds, Elongated Diorite Stocks Parallel To The Fold Axes |
| tectonic: | Andean Cordillera |
| disc_yr: | 1910 |
| discr: | Ferrobamba Limited - British Firm |
| References: |
- Deposit:: NOBLE, D.C. AND VIDAL, C.E., 1994, GOLD IN PERU: SEG NEWSLETTER, APRIL 1994, NO. 17, P. 1, 6-13.
- Deposit:: PERU-MAPA METALOGENETICO, 1969, AND, GUIA PARA EL MAPA METALOGENETICO DEL PERU, SOCIEDAD NACIONAL DE MINERIA Y PETROLEO, LIMA, PERU, NOV. 1969
- Deposit:: 1910 DIREXPL FERROBAMBA LTD.
- Deposit:: 1942 DIREXPL CERRO DE PASCO - CONFIRMED RESERVES
- Deposit:: 1960 COMPILE FRANK SIMONS - UNPUBLISHED REPORT
- Deposit:: DIREXPL VENTURA LTD.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
- Reserve-Resource:: ESTIMATED BY REPORTER 3/73
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