CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
486 Saudi Arabia 18.38 N -- 042.00 E Wadi Raysh 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): Wadi Raysh
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; dissem in thin marble interlayered with schist
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:marble
Host rock stratigraphy:Ablah Group

(2) metamorphic; schist; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: mafic; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Individual lithologies:chlorite schist

(3) metamorphic; schist; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-silicate; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Individual lithologies:calcite-quartz-muscovite schist
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in thin marble interlayered with schist; up to 640 ppm Cu in rock-chip samples over 5m/nearby samples max 8.4%cu; host rks derived from fine-grained epiclastic rocks/volc red bed type?
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


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