CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
276 India (Guntur) 16.12.27 N -- 079.42.11 E Nallakonda (Agnigundala Belt) Cu; Ag; Au; Ni; Co
 
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): Nallakonda (Agnigundala Belt)
Political location(s): India; Province or state: Guntur
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as disseminations in calcareous quartzite
Geologic province: Cuddapah Basin
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Au; Ni; Co
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:quartzite
phyllite (chloritic)
argillite (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Cumbum Fm, Nallamalai Gp, Cuddapah Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as disseminations in calcareous quartzite; strike length of mineralized zone localized in coarse-gr qtzite-1300m
References:
Dhoundial, D. P., 1987
Purana Basins of Peninsular India
in Purana Basins of Peninsular India, Middle to Late Proterozoic: Based on the Proceedings of the Seminar held at Hyderbade Dec. 29-31, 1984, Edited by Radhakrishna, B. P., Memoir , Geological Society of India, 6, 518 p, p. 1 - 4

Kurien, T. K., 1980
Geology and Mineral Resources of Andhra Pradesh (with map 1:2250 000)
Bulletin, Series A (Economic Geology), Geological Survey of India, Publication code 44, 242 p., 1 maps.

Nandan, K. R., 1981
Exploration for Copper Lead and Zinc Ores in India
Geological Survey of India Bulletin, Series A, Volume 47, p. 3 - 11

Resource data:
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3.144 million metric tons; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.82 percent
Reference: Sividas, K. M.; Sashikumar, K. T.; Subba Rao, N.; Setti, D. N.; Rajurkar, S. T.; Sharma, R. K.; Gopalakrishnan, K. P.; Sagar, A. K.; Ziauddin, M.; Murthy, Y. G. K.; Narayanaswamy, S., 1985: Lead and Copper Deposits of the Agnigundala Mineralized Belt, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh (Incorporating the Results of Stage B Exploration); Memoirs, Geological Survey of India, Publication code 118, 102 p., 1 maps.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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