CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
294 Angola 09.20 S -- 014.15 E Zenza 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): Zenza
Political location(s): Angola; Nearest community: Zenza
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in top part of thick sequence of ss and mudstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:sandstone (red)
conglomerate (in sandstone)
mudstone (micaceous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Upper Cuvo
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in top part of thick sequence of ss & mudstone; subeconomic/ found on surface over more than 1 km along strike; oxides contain up to 2% Cu but extend to a depth of only 80 metres
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

Van Eden, J. G., 1978
Stratiform Copper and Zinc Mineralization in the Cretaceous of Angola
Economic Geology, Volume 7, p. 1154 - 1161


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