CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
164 Morocco (West) 30.47 N -- 009.06 W Argana 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): Argana
Political location(s): Morocco; Province or state: West; Nearest community: Timezgadouine (14.5 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in bleached beds of red argillaceous sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (argillaceous)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in bleached beds of red argillaceous sandstone; little or no organic material associated with this redbed-type deposit; rock cement is calcareous/ fossils (ostracodes) are present
References:
Imreh, L., 1962
Les Mineralisations Cupriferes du Continental Intercalaire d'Agadez (Repulique du Niger)
Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (Section II), Volume 3, p. 51 - 108

Pouit, G., 1962
Les Mineralisations Cupriferes Stratiforms de la Terminaison Occidentale dans le Synclinal de la Nyanga du Haut-Atlas Marocain
5, in Gisements Stratiformes de Cuivre en Afrique: Symposium, 1 Partie, Lithologie, Sedimentologie (Stratiform Copper Deposits in Africa: Symposium Part 1, Lithology, Sedimentology), Edited by Lombard, J.; Nicolini, P., International Geological Congress (Copenhagen, 1960), African Geological Surveys, 1, 265 p, p. 53 - 59


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