CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
319 Russia (Siberia) 60.45 N -- 092.30 E Velmo River; Velma Basin 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): Velmo River; Velma Basin
Political location(s): Russia; Province or state: Siberia; Subprovince or locality: Chapa and Teya Rivers
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in limestone/ occasionally in sandstone
Geologic province: Siberian Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Cambrian - Late Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:limestone
marl (carbonaceous)
siltstone
sandstone
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Evenki Formation (Upper and Middle Subformation)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in limestone/ occasionally in sandstone; many occurrences along 250 km length of Velmo River; limestone very-clayey dolomitic/ oolitic/ algal or flinty concretions
References:
Bogdanov, Y. V.; Bur'yanova, E. Z.; Kutyrev, E. I.; Feoktistov, V. P.; Trifonov, N. P., 1973
Stratifitsirovannye Mestorozhdeniya Medi SSSR (Strata-Bound Copper Deposits of the USSR)
Nedra Publishing House, Leningrad, 311 p.

Miroshnikov, A. Y., 1981
Paleotectonics of the Middle and Late Cambrian Development Stage of the Angara Platform, Cupriferous Basin
Geotectonics, Volume 15, p. 123 - 131


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