Modelaje Geoquímico de la Manifestación Volcanico-Exhalativa Submarina “Los Tramojos” en el Complejo Vulcanógeno Sedimentario de Cuba Central.
We studied an outcrop of massive iron-copper-zinc sulphides in Cretaceous volcanogenic intermediate to felsic rocks, located to the south of the village Los Tramojos, in the province of Sancti Spiritus, in Central Cuba. It is an artificial cut of dacitic tuffs and volcanic breccias with a strong mineralized area, dark in color, containing pyrite, magnetite, barite, sphalerite, bornite and others copper sulphides, as well as apatite, galenita and chalcopyrite. This area includes another tectonic zone with limonitic, hematitic, zeolitic and chloritic alterations, in contact with tuffs and non-mineralized and fresh volcanic breccias. It is a manifestation of a submarine volcanic-exhalative type. The mineralized area described above are very like the so call "Black Ores" of the Kuroko type of deposits. We investigated an area of 3,000 m2 using a soil grid of 25 x 10 meters, with some lithogeochemical samples. This study allowed to determine the correlation coefficients characteristic of the ore zone. We recommend the use of these correlation coefficients, combined with geophysical and perforation work, to check ore potential of the Sector "Los Tramojos".