CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
946 Turkey 40.23.00 N -- 038.22 E Karaagac 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): Karaagac
Political location(s): Turkey; Nearest community: Susheri
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite and pyrite, with varying amounts of chalcopyrite, borntie, native copper, covellite, digenite, native silver and uraninite
Geologic province: Central Anatolia
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Eocene - Oligocene (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite and pyrite, with varying amounts of chalcopyrite, bornite, native copper, covellite, digenite, native silver and uraninite; redbed copper occurrence in red-coloured fluviatile sedimentary rocks; close to evaporite unit;
References:
Aral, H., 1990
The Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Origin of the Copper (Silver-Uranium) Deposits Found in an Area Between Delice and Yerkoy (Middle Anatolia)
Mineral Resources Exploration Bulletin, Volume 110, p. 39 - 60


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