CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
485 Saudi Arabia 18.53 N -- 041.52 E Jabal Sharbon 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): Jabal Sharbon
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; dissem in intraformational cglm/marble/amphibolite
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
marble
Host rock stratigraphy:Ablah Group

(2) metamorphic; amphibolite; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: mafic; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Individual lithologies:amphibolite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in intraformational cglm/marble/amphibolite; pyrite & chalcopyrite up to 1.4% Cu expressed as malachite & limonite; within basal clastic member of Ablah Group/ possibly volc red bed type
References:
Johnson, P. R.; Vranas, G. J., 1984
The Geotectonic Environments of Late Proterozoic Mineralisation in the Southern Arabian Shield
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 329 - 348


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