Cerro Lindo

Peru· ChichaUnknown
Contained Copper
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Average Grade
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Deposit Type
VMS — Bimodal-Felsic
Discovery Year
1970

Overview

Massive sulfides, baritic lens, irregular sulfide veins, Lens 4 stockwork of veins and disseminations, Lens 2 veinlets and disseminations to massive banding with overlying barite zone. Vertical zone: basal pyrite-chalcopyrite, upwards to sphalerite-galena to barite. Belt 1 150 m wide, NW-SE strike, Belt 2 550 m strike NW-SE, 30-200 m wide, Belt 3 350 m N-S strike, 200 m wide. Gossan at surface. Rifted continental margin basin. Resource 75 million t @ 0.89% Cu, 3.28% Zn, 0.36% Pb, 50.7 g/t Ag, open laterally and vertically.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-felsic in epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS