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Huelva, Spain |
Main commodities:
S Cu Zn Pb
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Super Porphyry Cu and Au
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The Tharsis group of more than 16 cupriferous pyrite deposits in Huelva, Spain, are similar to those at Rio Tinto and La Zarza [See the Rio Tinto entry for geological setting]. Tharsis is 30 km SW of La Zarza.
The Tharsis deposits each contained from 50 000 to 50 Mt of ore that totalled 110 Mt reserves in 1989, spread over a 1.5 km length and to a depth of 270 m. The largest deposits were Filon Norte [20 Mt], San Guillermo [55 Mt], Sierra Bullones [13 Mt]. These orebodies have different geometries, gangues and sulphur, copper, zinc and lead contents.
Mineralisation bears a close relationship to an east-west volcanic lineament.
For detail see the reference(s) listed below.
The most recent source geological information used to prepare this decription was dated: 1989.
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below. © Copyright Porter GeoConsultancy Pty Ltd. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, storage or dissemination prohibited.
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Chauvet, A., Onezime, J., Charvet, J., Barbanson, L. and Faure, M., 2004 - Syn- to Late-Tectonic Stockwork Emplacement within the Spanish Section of the Iberian Pyrite Belt: Structural, Textural, and Mineralogical Constraints in the Tharsis and La Zarza Areas: in Econ. Geol. v.99, pp. 1781-1792.
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Leistel J M, Marcoux E, Thieblemont D, Quesada C, Sanchez A, Almodovar G R, Pascual E, Saez R, 1997 - The volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Review and preface to the Thematic Issue: in Mineralium Deposita v33 pp 2-30
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Leistel J M, Marcoux E, Deschamps Y, 1997 - Chert in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: in Mineralium Deposita v33 pp 59-81
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Mathur R, Ruiz J, Tornos F 1999 - Age and sources of the ore at Tharsis and Rio Tinto, Iberian Pyrite Belt, from Re-Os isotopes: in Mineralium Deposita v34 pp 790-793
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Pasava J, Vymazalova A and Tornos F, 2007 - PGE distribution in massive sulfide deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt : in Mineralium Deposita v42 pp 309-314
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Sanchez-Espana J, Velasco F, Boyce A J, Fallick A E 2003 - Source and evolution of ore-forming hydrothermal fluids in the northern Iberian Pyrite Belt massive sulphide deposits (SW Spain): evidence from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes: in Mineralium Deposita v38 pp 519-537
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Soriano C, Marti J 1999 - Facies analysis of volcano-sedimentary successions hosting massive sulfide deposits in the Iberian Pyrite belt, Spain: in Econ. Geol. v94 pp 867-882
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Tornos F, 2006 - Environment of formation and styles of volcanogenic massive sulfides: The Iberian Pyrite Belt: in Ore Geology Reviews v28 pp 259-307
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Tornos F, Gonzalez Clavijo E, Spiro B, 1997 - The Filon Norte orebody (Tharsis, Iberian Pyrite Belt): a proximal low-temperature shale-hosted massive sulphide in a thin-skinned tectonic belt: in Mineralium Deposita v33 pp 150-169
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Tornos F, Solomon M, Conde C and Spiro B F, 2008 - Formation of the Tharsis Massive Sulfide Deposit, Iberian Pyrite Belt: Geological, Lithogeochemical, and Stable Isotope Evidence for Deposition in a Brine Pool: in Econ. Geol. v103 pp 185-214
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