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Chuquicamata, Radomiro Tomic, Mina Ministro Hales - MM, Mina Sur (Exotica)
Chile
Main commodities: Cu Mo




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2009.     Record last updated: 19/03/2017
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Chuquicamata

Radomiro Tomic

Mina Sur

Mina Ministro Hales

    Selected References
Alvarez O, Flores R  1985 - Alteration and hypogene mineralisation in the Chuquicamata porphyry copper deposit (Entirely in Spanish): in   4th Chilean Geological Congress, August 1985 Universidad del Norte, Antofagasta    23p
Arcuri T, Brimhall G,  2003 - The Chloride Source for Atacamite Mineralization at the Radomiro Tomic Phorphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 1667-1681
Ballard J R, Palin J M, Campbell I H  2002 - Relative oxidation states of magmas inferred from Ce(IV)/Ce(III) in Zircon: application to Porphyry Copper deposits of northern Chile : in    Contrib. to Mineralogy & Petrology   v144 pp 347-364
Barra, F., Alcota, H., Rivera, S., Valencia, V., Munizaga, F. and Maksaev, V.,  2013 - Timing and formation of porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile: new constraints from the Toki cluster: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.48, pp. 629-651.
Boric, R., Diaz, J., Becerra, H. and Zentilli, M.,  2009 - Geology of the Ministro Hales Mine (MMH), Chuquicamata District, Chile: in   XII Congreso Geologico Chileno, Santiago, 22-26 Noviembre, 2009, Faculty de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas Universidad de Chile,   Proceedings,  4p.
Campbell I H, Ballard J R, Palin J M, Allen C and Faunes A,  2006 - U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of Granitic Rocks from the Chuquicamata-El Abra Porphyry Copper Belt of Northern Chile: Excimer Laser Ablation ICP-MS Analysis : in    Econ. Geol.   v101 pp 1327-1344
Camus, F.,  2003 - El Yacimiento M&M: in   Geologia de los Sistemas Porfiricos en los Andes de Chile, Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile; Servicio Nacional e Geologia y Mineria; Sociedad Geologica de Chile,   [in Spanish], pp. 189-193.
Camus, F.,  2003 - El Yacimiento Chuquicamata: in   Geologia de los Sistemas Porfiricos en los Andes de Chile, Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile; Servicio Nacional e Geologia y Mineria; Sociedad Geologica de Chile,   [in Spanish], pp. 182-189.
Cuadra, C.P. and Rojas, S.G.,  2001 - Oxide mineralization of the Radomiro Tomic porphyry copper deposit, Northern Chile: in    Econ. Geol.   v.96, pp. 387-400.
Cuadra, P. and Camus, F.,   1998 - The Radomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile: in Porter T M (Ed.), 1998 Porphyry and Hydrothermal Copper and Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective PGC Publishing, Adelaide    pp. 99-109
Dold, B., Pinget, M.-C. and Fontbote, L.,  2023 - Genesis of the exotic chrysocolla - copper pitch/wad - atacamite/ brochantite ore at the Exotica (Mina Sur) deposit, Chuquicamata, Chile: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.58, pp. 569-591. doi.org/10.1007/s00126-022-01147-7.
Faunes A, Hintze F, Sina A, Veliz H, Vivanco M and Geological Staff (of 2003),  2005 - Chuquicamata, Core of a Planetary Scale Cu-Mo Anomaly: in Porter, T.M. (Ed), 2005 Super Porphyry Copper & Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective, PGC Publishing, Adelaide,   v.1 pp. 151-174
Guilbert J M, Park C F  1986 - Chuquicamata, Chile, extract from Chapter 11 - Deposits Related to Intermediate to Felsic Intrusions: in   The Geology of Ore Deposits Freeman, New York    pp 418-426
Lambiel, F., Dold, B., Spangenberg, J.E. and Fontbote, L.,  2023 - Neoformation of exotic copper minerals from gel-like precursors at the Exotica deposit, Chuquicamata, Chile: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.58, pp. 661-680.
Lindsay D D, Zentilli M, Ossandon-C G  1995 - Evolution of permeability in an active ductile to brittle shear system controlling the mineralisation at the Chuquicamata porphyry copper deposit, Chile: in Clark A (Ed),  Giant Ore Deposits - II Dept. of Geol. Sciences, Queens Univ., Kingston, Ontario    pp 62-89
McInnes B I A, Evans N J, Fu F Q, Garwin S, Belousova E, Griffin W L, Bertens A, Sukarna D, Permanadewi S, Andrew R L and Deckart K,  2005 - Thermal History Analysis of Selected Chilean, Indonesian and Iranian Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposits: in Porter T M (Ed), 2005 Super Porphyry Copper & Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective, PGC Publishing, Adelaide,   v.1 pp. 27-42
McInnes, B.I.A., Farley, K.A., Sillitoe, R.H. and Kohn, B.P.,  1999 - Application of Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry to the determination of the sense and amount of vertical fault displacement at the Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper deposit, Chile: in    Econ. Geol.   v.94, pp. 937-948.
Mpodozis, C. and Cornejo, P.,  2012 - Cenozoic Tectonics and Porphyry Copper Systems of the Chilean Andes: in Hedenquist J W, Harris M and Camus F, 2012 Geology and Genesis of Major Copper Deposits and Districts of the World - A tribute to Richard H Sillitoe, Society of Economic Geologists, Denver,   Special Publication 16, pp. 329-360
Munchmeyer C  1996 - Exotic deposits - products of lateral migration of supergene solutions from copper deposits: in Camus F, Sillitoe R H, Petersen R (Eds),  Andean Copper Deposits: New Discoveries, Mineralisation, Styles and Metallogeny Soc. Econ. Geologists   Spec. Publ. No. 5 pp 43-58
Nelson, M., Kyser, K., Clark, A. and Oates, C.,  2007 - Carbon Isotope Evidence for Microbial Involvement in Exotic Copper Silicate Mineralization, Huiquintipa and Mina Sur, Northern Chile: in    Econ. Geol.   v102, pp. 1311-1320.
Ossandon, C.G., Freraut, C.R., Gustafson, L.B., Lindsay, D.D. and Zentilli, M.,  2001 - Geology of the Chuquicamata Mine: A progress report: in    Econ. Geol.   v.96, pp. 249-270.
Park, J.-W., Campbell, I.H., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K. Cocker, H., Hao, H. and Kay, S.M.,  2019 - Chalcophile element fertility and the formation of porphyry Cu - Au deposits: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 657-670.
Reich M, Snyder G T, Alvarez F, Perez A, Palacios C, Vargas G, Cameron E M, Muramatsu Y and Fehn U,  2013 - Using Iodine Isotopes To Constrain Supergene Fluid Sources In Arid Regions: Insights From The Chuquicamata Oxide Blanket: in    Econ. Geol.   v.108 pp. 163-171
Sillitoe R H, McKee E H  1996 - Age of supergene oxidation and enrichment in the Chilean Porphyry Copper Province: in    Econ. Geol.   v91 pp 164-179
Wilson J, Zentilli M, Boric R, Diaz J and Maksaev V,  2009 - Geochemistry of the Triassic and Eocene igneous host rocks of the MMH porphyry copper deposit, Chuquicamata District, Chile: in   Poster sessions, Porphyry Systems and Related Mineralization Styles, 11th Biennial Meeting, SGA 2011, September, 2011, Santiago, Chile   Proceedings Volume, 3p.
Zentilli M, Graves M, Lindsay D  1995 - Recurrent mineralisation in the Chuquicamata porphyry copper system: Restrictions on genesis from mineralogical, geochronological and isotopic studies: in Clark A (Ed),  Giant Ore Deposits - II Dept. of Geol. Sciences, Queens Univ., Kingston, Ontario    pp 90-113


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