CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
493 Namibia 23.00 S -- 017.48 E Dordabis 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): Dordabis
Political location(s): Namibia; Nearest community: Windhoek (100 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in argillite and calcareous argillite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:argillite
argillite (calcareous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Klein Aub Formation, Sinclair Sequence Equivalent
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in argillite and calcareous argillite; reserve data combined with Witvlei deposit
References:
Maiden, K. J.; Innes, A. H.; King, M. J.; Master, S.; Pettitt, I., 1984
Regional Controls on the Localization of Stratabound Copper Deposits: Proterozoic Examples from Southern Africa and South Australia
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 99 - 118


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