CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
352 Tajikistan 39.00 N -- 068.00 E Gissar Range 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): Gissar Range
Political location(s): Tajikistan; Subprovince or locality: Gissar Range
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstone with high organic content
Geologic province: South Tien-shan
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Internal host rock structures:interbedding
Individual lithologies:sandstone (violet to grey interlayered)
claystone
Host rock stratigraphy:Obigarm Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone with high organic content; numerous occurrences of copper-bearing rocks within 300 m thick fm; Cu conc in transitional continental to marine lagoonal-deltaic rocks
References:
Bogdanov, Y. V.; Bur'yanova, E. Z.; Kutyrev, E. I.; Feoktistov, V. P.; Trifonov, N. P., 1973
Stratifitsirovannye Mestorozhdeniya Medi SSSR (Strata-Bound Copper Deposits of the USSR)
Nedra Publishing House, Leningrad, 311 p.


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