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Cerro de Pasco
Peru
Main commodities: Zn Pb Cu Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2009.     Record last updated: 12/12/2012
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Cerro de Pasco

    Selected References
Baumgartner R, Fontbote L and and Vennemann T,  2008 - Mineral Zoning and Geochemistry of Epithermal Polymetallic Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu-Bi Mineralization at Cerro de Pasco, Peru: in    Econ. Geol.   v.103 pp. 493-537
Baumgartner, R., Fontbote, L., Spikings, R., Ovtcharova, M., Schaltegger, U., Schneider, J., Page, L. and Gutjahr, M.,  2009 - Bracketing the Age of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Activity at the Cerro de Pasco Epithermal Polymetallic Deposit, Central Peru: A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar Study : in    Econ. Geol.   v.104, pp. 479-504.
Bissig, T., Clark, A.H., Rainbow, A. and Montgomery, A.,  2015 - Physiographic and tectonic settings of high-sulfidation epithermal gold-silver deposits of the Andes and their controls on mineralizing processes: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.65, pp. 327-364.
Cheney E S,  1991 - Structure and age of the Cerro de Pasco Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, Peru: in    Mineralium Deposita   v26 pp 2-10
Einaudi M T,  1977 - Environment of ore deposition at Cerro de Pasco, Peru: in    Econ. Geol.   v72 pp 893-924
Rottier, B., Kouzmanov, K., Casanova, V., Walle, M. and Fontbote, L.,   2018 - Cyclic Dilution of Magmatic Metal-Rich Hypersaline Fluids by Magmatic Low-Salinity Fluid: A Major Process Generating the Giant Epithermal Polymetallic Deposit of Cerro de Pasco, Peru : in    Econ. Geol.   v.113, pp. 825-856.
Rottier, B., Kouzmanov, K., Casanova, V., Bouvier, A.-S., Baumgartner, L.P., Walle, M and Fontbote, L.,  2018 - Mineralized breccia clasts: a window into hidden porphyry-type mineralization underlying the epithermal polymetallic deposit of Cerro de Pasco (Peru): in    Mineralium Deposita   v.53, pp. 919-946.
Rottier, B., Kouzmanov, K., Walle, M., Bendezu, R. and Fontbote, L.,  2016 - Sulfide Replacement Processes Revealed by Textural and LA-ICP-MS Trace Element Analyses: Example from the Early Mineralization Stages at Cerro de Pasco, Peru: in    Econ. Geol.   v.111, pp. 1347-1367.
Silberman M L and Noble D C,  1977 - Age of igneous activity and mineralization, Cerro de Pasco, Central Peru: in    Econ. Geol.   v72 pp 925-930


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