Scientific data near [-25.38330,-67.10000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.5 km north-south.

Geographic context

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

Evaporite-related potash permissive tracts

Estimates of the number of undiscovered evaporite-related potash deposits

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Tract	Deposit Type
Hombre Muerto-Diablillos	potash-bearing brine	Likely to have exploitable undiscovered resources

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
Salar del Hombre Muerto	Sedimentary	Lithium, boron

Global distribution of selected mines, deposits, and districts of critical minerals

Approximate locations and short descriptions of mines, deposits, and districts where critical minerals are found. The critical minerals are discussed in USGS Professional Paper 1802 many of these locations are described in further detail in that report.

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Site name	Critical minerals	Deposit type
Salar de Hombre Muerto	Lithium	Li Basin Brines

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Salar Del Hombre Muerto	Producer	K LI B NA_H GYP MG U

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.
Argentina Miocene–Pliocene Bajo de la Alumbrera	porphyry copper	Mainly late Miocene to early Pliocene calc-alkalic plutons and consanguineous coeval to slightly older lavas, breccias, pyroclastic rocks, and volcanic domes.