CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
920 Morocco (Bou Azzer-el Graara Distri 30.20.00 N -- 006.10 W Bleida 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): Bleida
Political location(s): Morocco; Province or state: Bou Azzer-el Graara District; Nearest community: Agadir (300 km E)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; cupriferous lenses (8% cu), conformable to bedding; copper sulphides grading into pyrite-rich layers with interfingering of two types
Geologic province: Anti-Atlas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin; stable (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; schist; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing); Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock protoliths:shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Bleida Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) cuprif. lenses (8%Cu) conformable to bedding; Cu sulphides grading into pyrite-rich layers with interfingering of 2 types; fault-controlled sed-hosted stratiform Cu; disseminated & fracture-controlled minlized zones; stratabound dep. w Piii fault control
References:
Leblanc, M.; Billaud, P., 1978
A Volcano-Sedimentary Copper Deposit on a Continental Margin of Upper Proterozoic Age: Bleida (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)
Economic Geology, Volume 73, p. 1101 - 1111

Production data: Report period: until 1991; 2,700,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4.5 percent
Reference: Kirkham, R. V., 1992: Unpublished Report; Unpublished Report
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

200,000 metric ton metal; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu
Reference: Leblanc, M.; Billaud, P., 1978: A Volcano-Sedimentary Copper Deposit on a Continental Margin of Upper Proterozoic Age: Bleida (Anti-Atlas, Morocco); Economic Geology, Volume 73, p. 1101 - 1111
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


2,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve - high grade
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 8 percent
Additional resources700,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve - low grade
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Reference: Leblanc, M.; Billaud, P., 1978: A Volcano-Sedimentary Copper Deposit on a Continental Margin of Upper Proterozoic Age: Bleida (Anti-Atlas, Morocco); Economic Geology, Volume 73, p. 1101 - 1111
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Reference: Leblanc, M.; Billaud, P., 1978: A Volcano-Sedimentary Copper Deposit on a Continental Margin of Upper Proterozoic Age: Bleida (Anti-Atlas, Morocco); Economic Geology, Volume 73, p. 1101 - 1111
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


1,360,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve - south-type
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3 percent
Additional resources270,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve - north type
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 5.8 percent
Reference: Kirkham, R. V., 1992: Unpublished Report; Unpublished Report
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Reference: Kirkham, R. V., 1992: Unpublished Report; Unpublished Report
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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