CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
103 Kazakhstan 51.49.50 N -- 068.27 E Atbasar - 1 Cu; Pb
 
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): Atbasar - 1
Political location(s): Kazakhstan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone of redbed series
Geologic province: Teniz Basin
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Late Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone of redbed series; found at intervals throughout 10000 ft of same basin/3-4 ore horizons; stratiform Cu with Pb in overlying horizons
References:
Davidson, C. F., 1965
A Possible Mode of Origin of Strata-Bound Copper Ores
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 942 - 954

Popov, V. M., 1962
Geologic Regularities in the Distribution of Cupriferous Sandstones in Central Kazakhstan
International Geology Review, Volume 4, p. 393 - 411


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