CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
491 Saudi Arabia 19.33 N -- 043.41 E Hanash Zn; 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): Hanash
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; minor cu in medium to coarse-grained granofels
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Zn; Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; unclassified metamorphic rocks; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Individual lithologies:metamorphic rock (amphibole-feldspar-quartz granofels)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) minor Cu in medium to coarse-grained granofels; originally stratabound sed hosted/0.7-12% Zn & 0.1-0.4% Cu over 1-1.5m; host possibly similar to Ash Sha Ib but more intensely metamorphosed
References:
Johnson, P. R.; Vranas, G. J., 1984
The Geotectonic Environments of Late Proterozoic Mineralisation in the Southern Arabian Shield
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 329 - 348


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