CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
532 Morocco 29.16 N -- 009.14 W Adrar Ouanas 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): Adrar Ouanas
Political location(s): Morocco; Nearest community: Ifrane (10 km ENE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; bedded mineralization in dolomite
Geologic province: Western Anti-Atlas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:dolomite
shale (limey)
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Red Patina Limestone Series

(2) metamorphic; schist
Individual lithologies:schist (calcareous)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) bedded mineralization in dolomite; 20 layers of brown grainy dolomite 0.5-2m thick within 150m sequence; extensive ancient workings over several kilometers
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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