Punta del Cobre

Overview

Veins are vertical, few cm to 60 m thick, 600 m strike length, 300 m vertical extent, massive stockwork veinlets toward both sides of vein; breccia bodies are tabular, 150 m vertical extent, 1-60 m thick, decreasing with depth, wedged shape; stratabound lenticular 1-35 m thick, few hundred m lateral extent.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Operator: 0

Production Start: 1800

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS