CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
272 Afghanistan (Logar Province) 34.15.58 N -- 069.18.02 E Aynak; Central Aynak; Western Aynak 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): Aynak (deposit name); Central Aynak (zone name); Western Aynak (zone name)
Political location(s): Afghanistan; Province or state: Logar Province; Nearest community: Kabul (30 km SSE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; conformable sulphide bands mainly in sandstone
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Kabul Block
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Eocambrian - Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-half-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-carbonate-sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine; Metamorphic grade: lower amphibolite; Component: main mineralized zone
Individual lithologies:dolomite
sandstone
quartzite
shale (carbonaceous)
marble
Host rock stratigraphy:Loy Khwar formation
Mineralogy: (mineralization): bornite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, native copper, malachite, covellite, tenorite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) conformable sulphide bands mainly in sandstone; upward & downward mineral zoning very similar to Zambian Cu deposits; host rocks to greenschist-meta ss/dolomitic marble/carbonaceous schist

(Applies to: reserve/resource assays) 'Drill-indicated reserves' estimated as 240 Mt @ 2.3% Cu or 175 Mt @ 2.5% Cu
References:
Abdullah, S.; Chmyriov, V. M.; Stazhilo-Alekseev, K. F.; Dronov, V. I.; Gannon, P. J.; Lubemov, B. K.; Kafarskiy, A. K. H.; Malyarov, E. P., 1977
Mineral Resources of Afghanistan
Afghan Geological and Mines Survey, Ministry of Mines and Industries, Republic of Afghanistan, Publication code Edition 2, 419 p.

Anonymous, 2006
Minerals in Afghanistan: The Potential for Copper
Information Circular, Afghanistan Geological Survey, 4 p.

Anonymous, 2006
Afghanistan: A Country of Opportunity
Mining Journal, August 2006 issue, p. 1

Sillitoe, R. H., 1980
Strata-Bound Ore Deposits Related to Infracambrian Rifting Along Northern Gondwanaland
in Fifth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, Utah 1978, Edited by Ridge, J. D., Proceedings, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Volume 1, 795 p, p. 163 - 172

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1980; 200,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Reference: Ridge, J. D. (Editor(s)), 1980: Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, Snowbird, Utah; Volume, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart , 1, 795 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


350,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource - 2 deposits
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.5 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Cu: 0.7 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1990: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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