Scientific data near [-48.38880,-68.31110]

Search area extends approximately 0.3 km east-west and 0.4 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
Cerro Vanguardia	Hydrothermal	Gold

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, Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic, Bajo de la Leona	porphyry copper	Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic calc-alkaline plutons, including the Subcordilleran batholith and the Central Patagonian Batholith, which consists mostly of granodiorite, granite, and leucocratic granite.
Chile-Argentina Cretaceous Turbio	porphyry copper	Cretaceous calc-alkaline batholiths and plutons composed mostly of biotite and hornblende-bearing granite, granodiorite, and tonalite.