Scientific data near [-10.66670,-76.27500]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.3 km north-south.

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Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Peru	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 de Pasco	Hydrothermal	Zinc, 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
Peru-Ecuador Cretaceous Almacen	porphyry copper	Cretaceous plutons, mostly calc-alkaline diorites and tonalites, principally of the Coastal batholith and smaller batholiths.
Peru-Ecuador middle–late Miocene La Granja	porphyry copper	Assorted middle to late Miocene mainly calc-alkaline plutons.
Outer Melanesian Arc II - Melanesia Area	porphyry copper	Eocene-Oligocene to late Miocene-Pliocene-Pleistocene Outer Melanesian magmatic arc and Melanesian borderlands in the Solomon Islands