Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Irkutsk Amphitheater |
Political location(s): |
Russia; Subprovince or locality: NW of Lake Beikal |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; in aleurolite/ grey sandstone/ argillite |
Geologic province: |
Siberian Platform |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Middle Ordovician - Late Ordovician (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstoneIndividual lithologies: | siltstone (aleurolite) argillite sandstone (grey and red) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Krivolutsk (Middle) and Makarov (Upper) Suites |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in aleurolite/ grey sandstone/ argillite; several occurrences in area/rocks reconstituted by regional epigenesis |
References: |
Kulakov, M. K., 1976 |
Genetic Types of Stratiform Mineralization in the Irkutsk Amphitheater |
Soviet Geology and Geophysics, Volume 17, p. 41 - 47 |
Narkelyun, L. F.; Bezrodnykh, Y. P.; Kulakov, M. A., 1969 |
Copper Potential of Sedimentary Bodies in South of Siberian Platform |
International Geology Review, Volume 11, p. 288 - 297 |
Salikhov, V. S., 1975 |
Postsedimentation Changes in Copper-Bearing Deposits of the South Siberian Platform |
International Geology Review, Volume 17, p. 83 - 94 |
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