Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Rahmani |
Political location(s): |
Algeria; Province or state: Western Sahara; Nearest community: Bechar |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; copper-enriched zones are stratiform lenses; mineralized lenses 3 to 4 m, up to 15 m thick and lateral extension limited to some tens of metres |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag; Pb; Zn |
Geological ages: |
Cambrian (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) Cu-enriched zones are stratiform lenses; mineralized lenses 3 - 4 m, up to 15 m thick & lateral extension limited to 10s of metres; Rahmani Cu-Ag showings occur in paleo-channel facies of Cambrian sandstone deposited on Pan-African igneous rocks |
References: |
Fuchs, Y.; Arbey, F.; Bouima, T., 1996 |
The Copper-Silver Occurrences of Rahmani, Western Sahara, Algeria |
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 31, p. 340 - 342 |
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