CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
456 China (Xinjiang) 41.45 N -- 082.45 E Kucha; Kuqa 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): Kucha; Kuqa
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Xinjiang; Nearest community: Kuqa (50 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Geologic province: Tarim Basin
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Tertiary (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Konchan Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone
References:
Shoude, C., 1986
Geological Characteristics and Genesis of Tertiary Copper-bearing Sandstone Occurrences Along the Northwestern Margin of the Tarim Basin, Singjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 661 - 665


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