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Porphyry copper deposit in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 232
Alternate names Limon, San Juan Bosco Cluster
Tract name Colombia-Ecuador-Peru Jurassic San Carlos (005pCu1003)
Site status deposit

Geographic location

Country Ecuador
State or province Morona-Santiago
Geographic location -78.416666667, -3.65
Geologic map unit -78.416666667, -3.65
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age (Ma) 154Ma
Age determination method unknown
Age range 154 Ma
Age reference Singer and others (2008)
Minerals biotite/phlogopite, bornite, carbonate, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chlorite, chrysocolla, epidote, gibbsite, goethite/limonite, halloysite, hematite, kaolinite/illite, magnetite, molybdenite, montmorillonite, muscovite/sericite, neotocite, paragonite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, smectite, tourmaline
Associated rocks quartz monzodiorite porphyry, granodiorite porphyry, granodiorite, quartz monzonite
Tectonic setting continental margin
Stratigraphic age Late Jurassic

Commodity and development information

Development status Occurrence
Major commodities Cu
Tonnage (Mt) 850Mt
Cu grade (%) 0.5%
Contained copper 4,200,000t
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments In the enrichment zone: 0.1 to 0.8% Cu.
Study area name Andes
References Corrinte Resources Inc. (2007); Gemuts and others (1992); Gendall and others (2000); Lowell and Quevedo (2002); PRODEMINCA (2000a); PRODEMINCA (2000b); Quevedo and Lowell (2001); Singer and others (2008)
Site reference Cunningham and others (2008)
Corriente Resources Inc., 2007, Copper growth story: Corriente Resources Inc. presentation, 16 p. (Also available at http://www.corriente.com/media/PDFs/2007_07.ppt.)Gemuts, Ilmars; Lopez, Guillermo; and Jimenez, Franklin, 1992, Gold deposits of southern Ecuador: Society of Economic Geologists SEG Newsletter, no. 11, p. 1, 13–16. (Also available at http://www.segweb.org/pdf/publications/newsletters/1992/SEG-Newsletter-11-1992-October.pdf.)Gendall, I.R., Quevedo, L.A., Sillitoe, R.H., Spencer, R.M., Puente, C.O., León, J.P., and Romulo, R.P., 2000, Discovery of a Jurassic porphyry copper belt, Pangui area, southern Ecuador: Society of Economic Geologists SEG Newsletter, no. 43, p. 1–15. (Also available at http://www.segweb.org/pdf/publications/newsletters/2000/SEG-Newsletter-43-2000-October.pdf.)Lowell, J.D., and Quevedo, L., 2002, Exploring Jurassic porphyry coppers in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador: 2002 SME Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz., February 25–27, 2002, Preprint 02-116. (Also available at http://www.onemine.org/search/summary.cfm/Exploring-Jurassic-Porphyry-Coppers-In-The-Amazon-Jungle-Of-Ecuador?d=152918F0959DEC0235BDCDE295150E1933C95871760CE9A99021CA563123D07E38141.)
PRODEMINCA, 2000a, Evaluacion distritos mineros del Ecuador—Depositos porfidicos y epi-mesotermales relacionados con intrusiones de las Cordilleras Occidental y Real: Ministerio de Energia y Minas, Subsecretaria de Minas, Direccion Nacional de Geologia, Proyecto de Desarrolo Minero y Control Ambiental (PRODEMINCA), v. 5, 223 p.
PRODEMINCA, 2000b, Manual de exploracion de depositos metaliferos en el Ecuador: Ministerio de Energia y Minas, Subsecretaria de Minas, Direccion Nacional de Geologia, Proyecto de Desarrolo Minero y Control Ambiental (PRODEMINCA), 100 p.
Quevedo, L., and Lowell, J.D., 2001, Cinturón de pórfidos de cobre de Zamora, Ecuador: II Congress of Prospectors and Explorers, ProExplo 2001, Lima, Peru, 20 p., accessed 2008, at http://www.proexplo.com.pe/encont/opcion/e2001.htm. [Web page no longer available.]
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/.