CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
344 Zimbabwe 17.30 S -- 029.00 E Umniati River 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): Umniati River
Political location(s): Zimbabwe
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in flagstone and gritty turbidite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:greywacke
siltstone
grit
Host rock stratigraphy:Sijarira Group, Nyangadze and Massorro Formations
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in flagstone and gritty turbidite; analogous to Katangan copper-in rocks of first marine transgression; Cu occurs at interface of formations-deltaic deposits to turbidite
References:
Harper, G., 1970
The Structure and Stratigraphy of the Eastern Portion of the Sijaria Group and Associated Formations in the Lower Umniati River Area, Rhodesia
Ph.D. Thesis, University of London

Mann, A. G., 1979
Sedimentological Control of Copper Deposition in the Sijarira Group, Western Umniati River Area, Rhodesia
in A Symposium on Mineral Deposits and the Transportation and Deposition of Metals, Edited by Anhaeusser, C. R.; Foster, R. P.; Stratten, T., Special Publication, Geological Society of South Africa, 5, 295 p, p. 219 - 228


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