CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
489 Saudi Arabia 19.17 N -- 043.43 E Ash Sha Ib Zn; Cu; Ag; Ba
 
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): Ash Sha Ib
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminnated in magnetite-rich hornfels and dolo-marble
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Zn; Cu; Ag; Ba
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; hornfels
Individual lithologies:hornfels (massive to schistose)

(2) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:marble (dolomitic)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in magnetite-rich hornfels & dolo-marble; sulphides display metamorphic textures/ metamorphosed with host rock; host rocks originally calcareous shale/arkose/dolomitic limestone
References:
Johnson, P. R.; Vranas, G. J., 1984
The Geotectonic Environments of Late Proterozoic Mineralisation in the Southern Arabian Shield
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 329 - 348

Resource data:
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1,700,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 6 percent
Cu: 0.3 percent
Ag: 100 grams/metric ton
Reference: Vedia, M. J.; Cortez, A. G., 1966: Informe Sobre Orientacion Tecnica Mina Cuprifera Eduardo Abaroa; Informe, Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Publication code GB-M-495
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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