CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
507 Russia 43.42 N -- 040.58 E Urup Sandstone 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): Urup Sandstone
Political location(s): Russia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; as cu halos on ore clasts and cu concretions in ss
Geologic province: Northern Caucasus
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Depositional setting: marine
Individual lithologies:sandstone (quartz)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as Cu halos on ore clasts & Cu concretions in ss; source of redeposited Cu & ore clasts cores from underlying Urup Mine; Jurassic ss rests on Paleozoic volcano-sedimentary Urup Mine sequence
References:
Zhabin, A. G., 1973
Jurassic Redeposition Copper Halo of Paleozoic Chalcopyritic Ores
International Geology Review, Volume 15, p. 437 - 444


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