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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2016.49.3.193

Geology and Mineralization in Constancia Porphyry Cu-Mo Mine, Cusco State, Southeastern Peru  

Yang, Seok-Jun (Mineral Resources Technology Research team, Convergence Research Center for Development of Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Heo, Chul-ho (Mineral Resources Department, Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.49, no.3, 2016 , pp. 193-199 More about this Journal
Abstract
Constancia mine is a deposit developed within Andahuaylas-Yauri Cu-Mo-Au metallogenic belt, southeastern Peru and is located in the southwestern part of Abancay deformation zone structurally as the porphyry copper deposit type. Mineralized zone in Constancia mine are composed of leached zone, secondary enrichment zone(ca. 1% Cu), mixed zone, primary mineralized zone(ca. 0.5%), skarn zone(ca. 1.5% Cu) from the upper part. Main country rock is monzonitic porphyry. Leached zone are characterized by the precipitation of limonite and looks brown in the outcrop. Oxidized zone have green due to the occurrence of copper oxide and secondary enrichment zone are characterized by the occurrence of chalcocite. Skarn zone are characterized by the occurrence of magnetite and garnet. Now, Hudbay, Canadian mining company, have 100% share about Constancia mine and started to produce commercially from January, 2015.
Keywords
porphyry copper; geology; mineralization;
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