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Geology of the Buena Esperanza Copper-Silver Deposit, Northern Chile

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Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes

Part of the book series: Special Publication No. 8 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits ((MINERAL DEPOS.,volume 8))

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The continental margin of western South America is a currently active oceanic-continental plate boundary: subduction of the oceanic Nazca plate is thought by most proponents of the plate theory to have generated magmatic activity in the Andean belt. In the southern part of the Central Andes active volcanism has been episodic since Jurassic time, taking place in parallel belts in each period, and migrating steadily eastward.

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  1. Depto. Geología, Univ. de Chile, P.O. Box 13518, Correo 21, Santiago, Chile

    C. M. Palacios

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  1. Département de Minéralogie, Université de Genève, 12, rue des Maraîchers, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Lluís Fontboté

  2. Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, D-6900, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany

    G. Christian Amstutz

  3. Gerente de Exploraciones, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, and Newmont Peru Limited, Av. José Gálvez Barrenechea 218, Urb. Corpac, Lima-San Isidro, Peru

    Miguel Cardozo

  4. Facultad de Minas, Metalurgia y Geología, Universidad de Guanajuato, Ex-Hacienda de San Matías s/n, Apartado Postal 347, Guanajuato, Gto., 36020, Mexico

    Esteban Cedillo

  5. Programa de Geología Económica Aplicada, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 4107, Concepción, Chile

    José Frutos

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Palacios, C.M. (1990). Geology of the Buena Esperanza Copper-Silver Deposit, Northern Chile. In: Fontboté, L., Amstutz, G.C., Cardozo, M., Cedillo, E., Frutos, J. (eds) Stratabound Ore Deposits in the Andes. Special Publication No. 8 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1_23

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