CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
159 Algeria (West) 32.50.50 N -- 000.13 W Mehirize Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Mehirize
Political location(s): Algeria; Province or state: West
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; associated with green argillites
Geologic province: West Saharian Atlas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:argillite (green)
Host rock stratigraphy:Tiloula Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) associated with green argillites; mineralized lenses located on flanks of small anticlinal structures; deposit of considerable geographic extent with thickness up to 6 m
References:
Caia, J., 1976
Paleogeographical and Sedimentological Controls of Copper, Lead and Zinc Mineralizations in the Lower Cretaceous Sandstones of Africa
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 409 - 422

Kolli, O., 1983
Copper Mineralization in Ain Sefra Area (West of Algeria)
in Mineral Deposits of the Alps and of the Alpine Epoch in Europe, Edited by Schneider, H. -J., Proceedings of 4th Ismida Oct 4-10/81, Special Publication of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Springer-Verlag, 3, 402 p, p. 291 - 297


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