Scientific data near [-25.13000,-65.90000]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 4.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Argentina	country
South America	continent
Land	continent

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Juaramento	Sedimentary	Copper, lead

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Argentina-Chile Miocene–Pliocene Cerro Casale	porphyry copper	Miocene to Pliocene plutons; including continental volcanic rocks containing lava flows, volcanic breccias, and ash-flow tuffs in three bands trending northwest across this northeast-trending tract.
Salta Rift System	sediment-hosted stratabound copper	Marine carbonaceous and continental clastic rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Lecho and Yacoraite Formations and Pirgua Subgroup of the Salta Group, Salta Rift System