| Location: | Colon, Panama, North America |
| Lat / long: | 8.85197, -80.57316 |
| dep_id: | 10068466 |
| mrds_id: | W001529 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead |
| Minor mineral: | Gold, Silver |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite |
| gangue: | Goethite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Jarosite, Magnetite |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR, OVOID |
| model: | 53: Porphyry Cu |
| alteration: | (1) Silica-Potassic With Quartz, Kspar, Biotite, Sericite; (2) Argillic With Kaolin, Sericite, Quartz; (3) Propylitic With Chlorite, Epidote, Pyrite, Albite, Uralite, Sericite And Carbonate |
| conc_proc: | Hypogene Mineralization With Minor Supergene Enrichment. |
| ore_ctrl: | E-W Folding And Faulting,Cut By Nw-Se Secondary Faulting . |
| Reporter: | Page, Norman J., Irving, Earl M., King, Robert U. |
| hrock_type: | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic),Intermediate Volcanic Rock |
| arock_type: | Diorite |
| Structure: | E-W Parallel To Axis Of Isthmus, General Nw-Se Elongation Of Ore Bodies Suggests Faulting And Fracturing Of Similar Attitude. |
| disc_yr: | 1967 |
| discr: | A Metti |
| References: |
- Deposit:: UNDP, 1969, PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION, CERRO PETAQUILLA, UN PUBLICATION NO 3 JULY 1969, P. 92.
- Deposit:: UNDP, 1968, CERRO PETEQUILLA, UN PUBLICATION NO. 2, P10, MAY 1968.
- Deposit:: FERENCIC, ANTE 1970, PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION IN PANAMA, MIN. DEPOSITA, V. 5 PP 383-389.
- Deposit:: DGRM-SGAB, 1988, PROYECTO INVENTARIO MINERO, MAPA METALOGENETICO: INFORME NO. 88-7.
- Deposit:: KESLER, S.E., SUTTER, J.F., ISSIGONIS, M. J., JONES, L.M., AND WALKER, R.L., 1977, EVOLUTION OF PORPHYRY COPPER MINERALIZATION IN OCEANIC ISLAN ARC: PANAMA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 72, NO. 6, P. 1142-1153.
- Deposit:: DANIELSON, VIVIAN, 1994, POSITIVE PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR PETAQUILLA: THE NORTHERN MINER, V. 80, NO. 26, AUGUST 29, 1994, P. 1-2.
- Deposit:: 1965 GEOCHEM UNDP, POSITIVE ANOMALIES
- Deposit:: 1968 DRILL UNDP, ORE RESERVE COMPUTATION
- Deposit:: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, MINERAL RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS NOS 2(MAY 1968)AND 3(JULY 1969), PANAMA
- Other Database:: CIMRI
- Reserve-Resource:: INTERNATIONAL WROUGHT COPPER COUNCIL REPORT, APRIL 1972. DANIELSON (1994)
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