CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
122 Israel 29.47 N -- 034.58.30 E Har Timna; Mount Timna Cu; U; Zn
 
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): Har Timna; Mount Timna
Political location(s): Israel; Nearest community: Mount Timna
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in micritic lenses in sandstone
Geologic province: Timna Basin
Commodities: Cu; U; Zn
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:sandstone (fine to gritty - black - white mottled)
Host rock stratigraphy:Nehushtan Member, Timna Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in micritic lenses in sandstone; in stratiform-laminated manganese assemblages; mn-rich laminae alternate with phosphatic- Cu- & detrital-rich laminae
References:
Bar-Matthews, M., 1987
The Genesis of Uranium in Manganese and Phosphorite Assemblages, Timna Basin, Israel
Geological Magazine, Volume 124, p. 211 - 229

Schutz, K.I ., 1994
Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez Basin
in Interior Rift Basins, Edited by Landon, S. M., World Petroleum Basin Memoir , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 59, 257 p, p. 57 - 96


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