CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
494 Botswana 21.43 S -- 021.37 E Ghanzi 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): Ghanzi
Political location(s): Botswana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Ghanzi Formation, Damara System
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; host rocks are Sinclair sequence correlatives
References:
Maiden, K. J.; Innes, A. H.; King, M. J.; Master, S.; Pettitt, I., 1984
Regional Controls on the Localization of Stratabound Copper Deposits: Proterozoic Examples from Southern Africa and South Australia
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 99 - 118


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