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Location: 34 km W from Tolar Grande, Argentina
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Taca Taca has porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum mineralisation located in the southern half of a 50 km long Ordovician batholith, which forms the Sierra de Taca Taca mountain range. The Taca Taca mineralisation is hosted by plutonic rocks of granitic composition together with lesser dacite, dolerite, and rhyolite intrusions. The porphyry is characterised by kilometre-scale zones of hydrothermally altered rocks that grade from a central potassic core to outer phyllic and argillic zones. Phyllic alteration is most pervasive across the deposit and is closely associated with mineralisation. Mineralisation is comprised of supergene (chalcocite) and hypogene (chalcopyrite) zones. A sub-surface leached horizon of varying thickness overlies the supergene and hypogene mineralisation. Mineralisation is disseminated and in fractures, veinlets, and quartz vein stockworks. The leached horizon is largely depleted of copper mineralisation except for a zone of chalcocite-rich ore perched within the leached material to the east of the deposit. In addition, a zone of supergene gold mineralisation, close to surface, is present above the thickest portion of leached material. Hypogene copper sulphides are mostly chalcopyrite with lesser bornite, chalcocite, covellite, and digenite. The mineralisation is broadly zoned with a chalcopyrite-bornite-molybdenite core yielding to a stronger pyritic halo around the outer edges. Supergene zones are mostly secondary sulphides formed by enrichment within a discontinuous blanket underneath the leached cap. Supergene mineralisation is often variably mixed with hypogene mineralisation and is often due to deep-seated alteration along structures and host rocks. Fine-grained black chalcocite and lesser covellite are the main secondary copper sulphides. Mineralisation remains open at depth and around several peripheral areas of the deposit.
