CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
921 Morocco (Bou Azzer-el Graara) 30.15.00 N -- 006.40 W Tachdamt 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): Tachdamt
Political location(s): Morocco; Province or state: Bou Azzer-el Graara; Subprovince or locality: Tachdamt; Nearest community: Bleida (40 km W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; discrete copper mineralization in both basic volcanic rocks and black sericitic phyllite
Geologic province: Anti-Atlas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) discrete Cu mineralztn in basic volcanics & black sericitic phyllite; Cu sulphides @ borders of spilitic lenses which have a jasper carapace or within horizon chloritic unit in upper part of phyllite; stratabound dep. w Piii fault control
References:
Leblanc, M.; Billaud, P., 1978
A Volcano-Sedimentary Copper Deposit on a Continental Margin of Upper Proterozoic Age: Bleida (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)
Economic Geology, Volume 73, p. 1101 - 1111


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