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): |
Al Munayzir |
Political location(s): |
Saudi Arabia |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; disseminated in quartz-mica-chlorite schist and quartzite |
Geologic province: |
Arabian Shield |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) metamorphic; schistIndividual lithologies: | schist (coarse grained) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Ablah Group |
(2) sedimentary; quartziteIndividual lithologies: | quartzite |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in quartz-mica-chlorite schist & quartzite; up to 0.3% Cu over 15-metre strike length/possibly volc red bed type; within basal clastic member of Ablah Group/minor evaporites indicated |
References: |
Johnson, P. R.; Vranas, G. J., 1984 |
The Geotectonic Environments of Late Proterozoic Mineralisation in the Southern Arabian Shield |
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 329 - 348 |
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