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Porphyry copper prospect in San Juan, Argentina

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 330
Tract name Argentina Permian San Jorge (005pCu1016ab)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Argentina
State or province San Juan
Geographic location -69.366666667, -31.3
Geologic map unit -69.366666667, -31.3
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age (Ma) 267Ma
Age determination method K-Ar biotite
Age range 267 ±4 Ma
Age reference Sillitoe (1977)
Minerals biotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite
Associated rocks diorite porphyry
Tectonic setting continental margin
Stratigraphic age Middle Permian

Commodity and development information

Development status Occurrence
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Study area name Andes
References Sillitoe (1977); Zappettini and others (1999); Singer and others (2008); Singer and others (2005)
Site reference Cunningham and others (2008)
Sillitoe, R.H., 1977, Permo-Carboniferous, upper Cretaceous, and Miocene porphyry copper-type mineralization in the Argentinean Andes: Economic Geology, v. 72, p. 99–109. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.72.1.99.)Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C., 2005, Porphyry copper deposits of the world—Database, map, and grade and tonnage models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2005-1060, [9] p. and digital data, accessed December 31, 2013, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1060/.Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C., 2008, Porphyry copper deposits of the world—Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155, [45] p. and digital data, accessed December 31, 2013, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1155/.
Zappettini, E.O., Godeas, M., and Segal, S., 1999, Mapa metallogenetico de la Republica Argentina, escala 1:2,500,000, 2 fol., in Zappettini, E.O., ed., Recursos minerales de la República Argentina: Buenos Aires, Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales (SEGEMAR), Anales 35, 2 v., 2172 p.