CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
121 Israel 29.48 N -- 034.59 E Har Mikhrot; Mount Mikhrot 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): Har Mikhrot; Mount Mikhrot
Political location(s): Israel; Nearest community: Mount Mikhrot
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; associated with phosphorite lenses and laminae in shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:shale (red - green)
Host rock stratigraphy:Mikhrot Member, Timna Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) assoc with phosphorite lenses & laminae in shale
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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