Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Tazalaght |
Political location(s): |
Morocco |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; copper occurs in the base of adoudounian and in the immediately adjacent pii quartzite basement rocks along an angular unconformity |
Geologic province: |
Western Anti-Atlas |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Neoproterozoic (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) copper occurs in the base of Adoudounian and in the immediately adjacent Pii quartzite basement rocks along an angular unconformity; deposit occurs in a small window largely surrounded by younger Paleozoic formations |
References: |
Chazan, W.; Fauvelet, E., 1962 |
Copper Stratiform Deposits in Western Anti Atlas (Morocco) |
4, in Gisements Stratiformes de Cuivre en Afrique: Symposium, 1 Partie, Lithologie, Sedimentologie (Stratiform Copper Deposits in Africa: Symposium Part 1, Lithology, Sedimentology), Edited by Lombard, J.; Nicolini, P., International Geological Congress (Copenhagen, 1960), African Geological Surveys, 1, 265 p, p. 43 - 52 |
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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. |
1,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve ?Grade-commodity information: | Cu: 3 percent | Reference: Kirkham, R. V., 1992: Unpublished Report; Unpublished Report Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |