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): |
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-conglomerateIndividual lithologies: | sandstone (red) conglomerate (in sandstone) mudstone (micaceous) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Upper Cuvo |
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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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