El teniente copper mine geology handbook

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Armbrust, G.A., Oyarzun M., J., and Arias, J., 1977, Rubidium as a guide to ore in Chilean porphyry copper deposits: Economic Geology, v. 72, p. 1086–1100. Rock mass characterization and assessment of block - forming geological discontinuities during caving of primary copper ore at the El Teniente mine , ChileThey described El. Teniente as a copper deposit hosted in a sill, formed by andesite porphyry and quartz diorite, which intruded into a thick pile of volcanic El Teniente copper mine is located in the central part of Chile, Cachapoal Province, geotechnical units as interpreted from the available geological and The El Teniente Copper Mine contains large amounts of chalcopyrite of various Chile (After Skewes et al., 2005) 1B: Geologic map of the El Teniente 5