Maricunga Gold Belt
The Maricunga Gold Belt (Spanish: Cinturón aurífero de Maricunga) or Maricunga Metallogenic Belt[1] is a geological trend of an area rich in gold veins in Atacama Region, Chile. It runs from the vacinity of the Argentine border in a northwestern direction, but does not reach the Pacific Ocean.[2] There is both gold and some silver of high sulphidation epithermal origin and gold with copper of porphyry type in the belt.[1] The gold belt lies at the southern end of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes and different volcanic complexes are geographically associated with any of the two mineralization types.[1]
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[edit]- ^ a b c Bugeño, Felipe; Calle-Gardella, Daniela; Comte, Diana; Reyes-Wagner, Valentina; Ojeda, Marcia; Rietbrock, Andreas; Roecker, Steven (2022). "Subsurface Insights of the Maricunga Gold Belt through Local Earthquake Tomography". Minerals. 12 (11): 1437. Bibcode:2022Mine...12.1437B. doi:10.3390/min12111437.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Palacios, C.M.; Townley, B.C.; Lahsen, A.A.; Egafia, A.M. (1993). "Geological development and mineralization in the Atacama segment of the South American Andes, northern Chile (26°15′–27°25′S)". Geologische Rundschau. 82: 652–662. doi:10.1007/BF00191492.
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