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Agua Rica
Catamarca, Argentina
Main commodities: Cu Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1998.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Agua Rica

    Selected References
Franchini, M., Impiccini, A., Lentz, D., Rios, F.J., OLeary, S., Pons, J. and Schalamuk, A.I.,  2011 - Porphyry to epithermal transition in the Agua Rica polymetallic deposit, Catamarca, Argentina: An integrated petrologic analysis of ore and alteration parageneses: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.41, pp. 49-74.
Franchini, M., McFarlane, C., Maydagan, L., Reiche, M., Lentz, D.R., Meinert, L. and Bouhier, L.,  2015 - Trace metals in pyrite and marcasite from the Agua Rica porphyry-high sulfidation epithermal deposit, Catamarca, Argentina: Textural features and metal zoning at the porphyry to epithermal transition: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.66, pp. 366-387.
Landtwing M R, Dillenbeck E D, Leake M H, Heinrich C A  2002 - Evolution of the breccia-hosted Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit at Agua Rica, Argentina: progressive unroofing of a magmatic hydrothermal system: in    Econ. Geol.   v97 pp 1273-1292
Perello J, Rojas N, Devaux C, Fava L, Etchart E and Harman P,  1998 - Discovery of the Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina Part 2: Geology: in Porter T M (Ed.), 1998 Porphyry and Hydrothermal Copper and Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective PGC Publishing, Adelaide    pp. 117-132
Rojas N, Perello J, Harman P, Cabello J, Devaux C, Fava L and Etchart E,   1998 - Discovery of the Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina Part 1: Exploration and Discovery: in Porter T M (Ed.), 1998 Porphyry and Hydrothermal Copper and Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective PGC Publishing, Adelaide    pp. 111-117


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