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Colquijirca District - Colquijirca, Smelter, Marcapunta Oeste, San Gregorio, Oro Marcapunta
Peru
Main commodities: Cu Zn Pb Ag Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2009.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Colquijirca

    Selected References
Bendezu, R. and Fontbote, L.,   2009 - Cordilleran Epithermal Cu-Zn-Pb-(Au-Ag) Mineralization in the Colquijirca District, Central Peru: Deposit-Scale Mineralogical Patterns : in    Econ. Geol.   v.104, pp. 905-944.
Bendezu, R. and Fontbote, L.,  2002 - Late timing for high sulfidation cordilleran base metal lode and replacement deposits in porphyry-related districts: the case of Colquijirca, central Peru: in    SGA News   No. 13 p. 1, 9-13.
Bendezu, R., Fontbote, L. and Cosca, M.,  2003 - Relative age of Cordilleran base metal lode and replacement deposits, and high sulfidation Au-(Ag) epithermal mineralization in the Colquijirca mining district, central Peru: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.38, pp. 683-694.
Bendezu, R., Page, L., Spikings, R., Pecskay, Z. and Fontbote, L.,  2008 - New 40Ar/39Ar alunite ages from the Colquijirca district, Peru: evidence of a long period of magmatic SO2 degassing during formation of epithermal Au-Ag and Cordilleran polymetallic ores: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.43, pp. 777-789.
Fontbote, L. and Bendezu, R.,  1999 - The carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb San Gregorio deposit (Colquijirca District, Central Peru) as part of a high sulfidation epithermal system: in Stanley, C.J. et al., (Eds. 1999),  Mineral deposits: processes to processing, Balkema, Balkema, Amsterdam,    pp. 495-498.
Vidal, C. and Ligarda, R.,   2004 - Enargite-gold deposits at Marcapunta, Colquijirca Mining Dustrict, central Peru: Mineralogic and geochemical zoning in subvolcanic, limestone replacement deposits of high-sulphidation epithermal type: in Sillitoe, R.H., Perello, J. and Vidal, C.E., (Eds.),  2004 Andean Metallogeny: New Discoveries, Concepts and Updates, Society of Economic Geologists,    Special Publication 11, pp. 231-241.
Vidal, C. and Ligarda, R.,  2003 - Enargite-gold deposits in Marcapunta, Colquijirca Mining District, Central Peru: Mineralogical and geochemical zonation of subvolcanic, limestone-replacement deposits of high sulfidation,epithermal character: in   10th Congreso Geologico Chileno, 2003, Universidad de Concepcion, Departamento de Ciencias de la Terra,    1p.


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