Aguas Tenidas Este

Overview

Massive sulfide ore body is 1.8 km along strike (E-W direction), 150-300 m wide and wedge-shaped, not exposed. It plunges 20?W. E end is 280 m depth, W end is 650 m depth. Maximum thickness 90-100 m. Fault-bound on N. Back-arc extension or epicontinental extensional rift basins. Resource 41 million t @ 1.27% Cu, 3.14% Zn, 0.87% Pb, 0.5 g/t Au, 36.9 g/t Ag, open to the west.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1999

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS