CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1017 Algeria (Western Sahara) 29.10.00 N -- 004.05 W Rahmani Cu; Ag; Pb; Zn
 
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): Rahmani
Political location(s): Algeria; Province or state: Western Sahara; Nearest community: Bechar
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; copper-enriched zones are stratiform lenses; mineralized lenses 3 to 4 m, up to 15 m thick and lateral extension limited to some tens of metres
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Cambrian (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) Cu-enriched zones are stratiform lenses; mineralized lenses 3 - 4 m, up to 15 m thick & lateral extension limited to 10s of metres; Rahmani Cu-Ag showings occur in paleo-channel facies of Cambrian sandstone deposited on Pan-African igneous rocks
References:
Fuchs, Y.; Arbey, F.; Bouima, T., 1996
The Copper-Silver Occurrences of Rahmani, Western Sahara, Algeria
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 31, p. 340 - 342


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