Editing Antofagasta Region (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Antofagasta bord galleryfull.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The city of [[Antofagasta]]]]

{{See also|Coastal Cliff of northern Chile}}
The main river is the [[Loa River|Loa]].

Along the [[Chilean Coast Range|Coastal Cordillera]] lies [[Atacama Fault]]. The area of the Coastal Cordillera around the fault is rich in iron ore constituting the northern part of the so-called [[Chilean Iron Belt]].<ref name=Tornosetal2020>{{Cite journal |title=The role of the subducting slab and melt crystallization in the formation of magnetite-(apatite) systems, Coastal Cordillera of Chile |journal=[[Mineralium Deposita]] |last1=Tornos |first1=Fernando |last2=Hanchar |first2=John M. |doi=10.1007/s00126-020-00959-9 |year=2020 |last3=Munizaga |first3=Rodrigo |last4=Velasco |first4=Francisco |last5=Galindo |first5=Carmen |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=253–278 |s2cid=212629723 }}</ref> These ore deposits are often of the manto-type deposits and are chiefly emplaced on rocks of [[La Negra Formation]].<ref name=Barraetal2017>{{cite journal |last1=Barra |first1=Fernando |last2=Reich |first2=M. |last3=Selby |first3=D. |last4=Rojas |first4=P. |last5=Simon |first5=A. |last6=Salazar |first6=E. |last7=Palma |first7=G. |date=2017 |title=Unraveling the origin of the Andean IOCG clan: a Re-Os isotope approach |journal=Ore Geology Reviews |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=62–78 |doi=10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.10.016 |bibcode=2017OGRv...81...62B |url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/20115/1/20115.pdf |archive-date=2018-07-22 |access-date=2022-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722163253/http://dro.dur.ac.uk/20115/1/20115.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>