La Candelaria and the Punta del Cobre District: Early Cretaceous Iron-Oxide Cu-Au(-Zn-Ag) Mineralization.
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Robert Marschik, Lehrstuhl für Lagerstättenlehre, Institut für Mineralogie, Germany (currently Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A); Richard A. Leveille, Phelps Dodge do Brasil Mineraçäo S.A., Brazil; Walter Martin, Compañía Contractual Minera Candelaria, Chile.

Buyin - Porter, T.M. (Ed), 2000 - Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, v. 1, pp 163-175.

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