Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Jhakkar Kot |
Political location(s): |
Pakistan; Nearest community: Jhakkar Kot |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in arkosic and partly conglomeratic (speckled) ss |
Geologic province: |
Central Salt Range |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Permian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerateIndividual lithologies: | sandstone (arkosic) shale conglomerate | Host rock stratigraphy: | Warchha Sandstone Formation, Nilawahan Group |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in arkosic & partly conglomeratic (speckled) ss; mineralized zone is 65 cm thick in upper part of Warchha sandstone; thin coal seams & Cu minerals locally present in Warchha sandstone fm |
References: |
Shah, S. M., 1980 |
Stratigraphy and Economic Geology of Central Salt Range |
Records of the Geological Survey of Pakistan, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Publication code 52, 104 p. |
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