CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
932 Morocco 29.22.00 N -- 008.47 W Idm Ou Anas 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): Idm Ou Anas
Political location(s): Morocco; Nearest community: Foum El Hassane (30 km NNE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; ore shoots of massive chalcopyrite, chalcocite, malachite and hematite
Geologic province: Western Anti-Atlas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) ore shoots of massive chalcopyrite, chalcocite, malachite and hematite; bedded veins occur in sandstone and limestone
References:
Chazan, W.; Fauvelet, E., 1962
Copper Stratiform Deposits in Western Anti Atlas (Morocco)
4, in Gisements Stratiformes de Cuivre en Afrique: Symposium, 1 Partie, Lithologie, Sedimentologie (Stratiform Copper Deposits in Africa: Symposium Part 1, Lithology, Sedimentology), Edited by Lombard, J.; Nicolini, P., International Geological Congress (Copenhagen, 1960), African Geological Surveys, 1, 265 p, p. 43 - 52


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