Caracterización genética del distrito minero El Infiernillo, bloque de San Rafael, provincia de Mendoza
; Rubinstein, Nora Alicia 
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08/2010
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Asociación Geológica Argentina
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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
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El distrito minero El Infiernillo está ubicado en el Bloque de San Rafael (34º38'20"S; 68º47'37"O), Mendoza. Comprende un depósito tipo cobre porfírico emplazado en piroclastitas en las que desarrolla un patrón de alteración concéntrico con un núcleo de cuarzo rodeado de una zona con alteración potásica y externamente un halo fílico con vetas polimetálicas asociadas. El halo potásico presenta una asociación de feldespato potásico-cuarzo-(biotita). Se reconocen al menos tres pulsos de silicificación relacionados con esta etapa, uno de los cuales (de temperatura entre 550º y 390ºC y salinidad entre 35 y 47 %) da lugar a la mineralización de Cu. La alteración fílica está conformada por cuarzo-illita-(rutilo) acompañada, en sectores, por albita que indica un estadio temprano dentro de esta etapa. Las texturas e inclusiones fluidas reconocidas en el núcleo de cuarzo sugieren una somerización del sistema hidrotermal durante su evolución. La secuencia paragenética del diseminado comprende bornita, calcopirita-molibdenita, pirita, (galena-esfalerita). La presencia de venillas de molibdenita-cuarzo indica la transición de la etapa potásica a la fílica mientras que las venillas de pirita-cuarzo señalan el pasaje a un régimen de deformación frágil durante el cual se emplazan las vetas con una paragénesis general de calcopirita-esfalerita, pirita, (Ag) tetraedrita, galena. La geoquímica de la roca de caja permite correlacionarla con la sección inferior del ciclo magmático Choiyoi y el control del magmatismo y la estructura permite asignarle al depósito una edad pérmica inferior a pérmica media a superior.
El Infiernillo Mining District is located in the San Rafael Block (34º38'20";68º47'37"), province of Mendoza, Argentina. It is a porphyry Cu (Mo) type deposit which is hosted by a volcaniclastic sequence. It develops an alteration halo with a concentric pattern consisting of a central quartz neck surrounded by a potassic alteration zone and outwards a phyllic halo and small polymetallic veins. The potassic halo has a paragenesis of K-feldspar-quartz-(biotite). Three silicification phases are related to this alteration stage, one of them (with temperature between 550º and 390ºC and salinity between 35 and 47 %) genetically linked to the copper mineralization. The phyllic alteration consists of quartz-illite-(rutile) with minor albite. The albitization process points out to an early phase of this phyllic stage. The fluid inclusions together with the textures of the quartz neck suggest the shallowing of the active hydrothermal system. The disseminated ore paragenesis consists of bornite, chalcopyrite-molibdenite, pyrite, (galena-sphalerite). The presence of molibdenite-quartz veins indicate the transition from the potassic to the phyllic stage while the pyrite-quartz ones point out to a transition to a fragile deformation regime during which the polymetallic veins, with a paragenesis of chalcopyrite- sphalerite, pyrite, (Ag) tetrahedrite, galena were formed. The petrologic characteristics of the volcaniclastic host rocks reveal that they correspond to the lower section of Choiyoi magmatic cycle. The magmatic and structural controls constrain the age of this ore deposit to the Early-Middle to Late Permian.
El Infiernillo Mining District is located in the San Rafael Block (34º38'20";68º47'37"), province of Mendoza, Argentina. It is a porphyry Cu (Mo) type deposit which is hosted by a volcaniclastic sequence. It develops an alteration halo with a concentric pattern consisting of a central quartz neck surrounded by a potassic alteration zone and outwards a phyllic halo and small polymetallic veins. The potassic halo has a paragenesis of K-feldspar-quartz-(biotite). Three silicification phases are related to this alteration stage, one of them (with temperature between 550º and 390ºC and salinity between 35 and 47 %) genetically linked to the copper mineralization. The phyllic alteration consists of quartz-illite-(rutile) with minor albite. The albitization process points out to an early phase of this phyllic stage. The fluid inclusions together with the textures of the quartz neck suggest the shallowing of the active hydrothermal system. The disseminated ore paragenesis consists of bornite, chalcopyrite-molibdenite, pyrite, (galena-sphalerite). The presence of molibdenite-quartz veins indicate the transition from the potassic to the phyllic stage while the pyrite-quartz ones point out to a transition to a fragile deformation regime during which the polymetallic veins, with a paragenesis of chalcopyrite- sphalerite, pyrite, (Ag) tetrahedrite, galena were formed. The petrologic characteristics of the volcaniclastic host rocks reveal that they correspond to the lower section of Choiyoi magmatic cycle. The magmatic and structural controls constrain the age of this ore deposit to the Early-Middle to Late Permian.
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