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Erich U. Petersen
Field Mapping in Porphyry Copper Environments
Participants
13 August, Sunday
14 August, Monday
6:00 AM Breakfast
7:00 AM Depart from Hotel Jarusalen for Cerro Verde
8:00 AM Check in at Cerro Verde, Mine Safety
9:00 AM Mapping I: Cerro Verde Pit
1:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Mapping II: Cerro Verde Pit
5:00 PM Depart Cerro Verde for Hotel
Evening Session
15 August, Tuesday
6:00 AM Breakfast
7:00 AM Depart from Hotel Jarusalen for Cerro Verde
8:00 AM Mapping III: Santa Rosa Pit
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Mapping IV: Santa Rosa Pit
5:00 PM Depart Cerro Verde for Hotel
Evening Session
16 August, Wednesday
6:00 AM Breakfast
7:00 AM Depart from Hotel Jarusalen for Cerro Verde
8:00 AM Mapping V: Tour of Porphyry copper special features
1:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Mapping VI: Cerro Negro Tour
3:30 PM Depart for Airport
Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge the many individuals and organizations that made this
course possible. We thank Phelps Dodge and Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A. for
granting generous access to the Cerro Verde and Santa Rosa deposits. Jim Jones and
David P. Braxton provided invaluable help in organizing the course. The Society of
Economic Geologists sponsored the mapping course.
del tipo prfido de cobre y molibdeno, emplazados en el sgmento sur del Batolito de la
con edades que van desde el Precmbrico hasta el Terciario inferior. Remanentes de
el rea.
relacionados a los depsitos de cobre porfirtico de Cerro Verde y Santa Rosa, conforman
el complejo intrusivo conocido como "La Caldera", estos prfidos estn alineados segn
presentan una topografa madura con cerros redondeados de baja altura, quebradas secas
operativos comprometen slo parte de la extensin anterior. Dentro del rea de estudio,
estas rocas es de 60 m.a. La alteracin hipgena producida por estas intursiones tiene
una dstribucin algo simtrica y concntrica, con una zona potsica al centro, seguida de
a las anteriores. De forma asimtrica y slo en algunas partes del depsito se presentan la
la zona de xidos por brochantita, crisocola, malaquita y "pitch de cobre", pro encima de
los cuerpos de prdidos y brechas se alinean sigiendo esta misma dreccin; el fallamiento
tensional post-mineral revela una importante componente E-O tambin los sistemas NO-
SE y NE-SO.
A suite of rocks collected in May 2000 in the Cerro Verde and Santa Rosa open
pits are described below. Many of the rocks were examined petrographically and
analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The plates can also be seen in the Mapping Course
website. The URL is http://www.mines.utah.edu/pyrite/mappingcourse.
Rock Plate A
D SR Alun: Santa Rosa. Massive, tan-colored alunite vein about 6 cm thick. See
also Plate 2, D (7310023)
Rock Plate B
C SR 2558: Santa Rosa. "D" vein cuts dacite-monzonite porphyry. Note ~1.5
cm wide silicified halo on pyrite vein. See also Plate 3, C; Plate 4, A, B
(7310034)
D CVS: Cerro Verde. Cerro Verde Schist. Massive phlogopite; folliated. See
also Plate 4, C, D (7310030)
Rock Plate C
Photomicrographs Plate 1
Photomicrographs Plate 2
C CV 2633B: Cerro Verde. 1200-micron wide 'vein' cuts from lower right to
upper left. "Vein" contains fragments of wall rock (microbreccia) in a matrix
of jarosite. Elsewhere, younger jarosite-only veins are developed within this
vein. PL, 50X, FOV = 2mm (7310025)
D SR Alun: Santa Rosa. Contact between vein fill and wall rock. Vein fill is
fine-grained (10 x 40 micron) alunite crystals (top right). XP, 50X, FOV =
2mm (7310023)
Photomicrographs Plate 3
A SR 208: Santa Rosa. Three habits of tourmaline are present. A fibrous, light
colored variety; a very coarse, pale-dark green variety that commonly forms
rosettes; and clusters of isolated crystals. Crystals of the latter variety can
range from 80 to 1000 microns but are commonly less than 100 microns long.
The fibrous variety commonly overgrows the coarse variety. The
"groundmass is coarse mosaic quartz. PL, 50X, FOV = 2mm (7310033)
Photomicrographs Plate 4
C CVS: PL, Cerro Verde. This sample has strong folliation that is imparted by
the alignment of pale green trioctahedral phyllosilicate ('phlogopite'). Knots
of chlorite and white phyllosilicate (relic feldspar?) are common. 100X, FOV
= 1mm (7310030)
A B
C D
Plate B
A B
C D
Plate C
A B
Plate 1
A B
C D
Plate 2
A B
C D
Plate 3
A B
C D
Plate 4
A B
C D
Useful References
Titley, S.R., Ed., 1982, Advances in Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits,
Southwestern North America. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 560 p.
Titley, S.R. and Hicks, C.L., Eds., 1966, Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits,
Southwestern North America, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 287 p.
Compton, R.R., 1985, Geology in the Field. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 398 p.
Billings, M.P., 1972, Structural Geology, third edition, Prentice Hall, New York, 606 p.
Davis, G.H., 1984, Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions. John Wiley and Sons, New
York, 492 p.
Pierce, F.W and Bolm, J.G., Eds., 1995, Porphyry Copper Deposits of the American
Cordillera. Arizona Geological Society Digest 20, 656 p.
Chvez. W.X., Jr., 2000, Supergene Oxidation of Copper Deposits: Zoning and
Distribution of Copper Oxide Minerals. SEG Newsletter No. 41, April 2000.
Phelps Dodge, 2000, Geologia de los Porfidos de Cobre Cerro Verde Y Santa Rosa,
Arequipa, Peru. Departamento de Geologia, 21 p.