CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
314 Russia (Siberia) 56.46 N -- 106.30 E Lena Zone 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): Lena Zone
Political location(s): Russia; Province or state: Siberia; Subprovince or locality: Lena-Kirenga interstream area; Nearest community: Lena-Kirenga
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in silicate-carbonate underwater channel sandstone
Geologic province: Siberian Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
limestone (sandy)
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Ilga Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in silicate-carbonate underwater channel sandstone; Cu restricted to six stratigraphic levels; Cu conc higher where molasse grades directly into variegated deposits
References:
Davidson, C. F., 1965
A Possible Mode of Origin of Strata-Bound Copper Ores
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 942 - 954

Kutyrev, E. I., 1969
Distribution Patterns of Copper Mineralization in Middle and Upper Cambrian Rocks of the Southern Siberian Platform (Facies)
Lithology and Mineral Resources, Volume 3, p. 302 - 315

Narkelyun, L. F.; Bezrodnykh, Y. P.; Kulakov, M. A., 1969
Copper Potential of Sedimentary Bodies in South of Siberian Platform
International Geology Review, Volume 11, p. 288 - 297

Narkelyun, L. F.; Filin, A. M.; Bezrodnykh, Y. P.; Trubachev, A. I., 1971
Cupriferous Shales in Poland and their Analogues in Eastern Part of the USSR
International Geology Review, Volume 13, p. 1600 - 1610

Salikhov, V. S., 1975
Postsedimentation Changes in Copper-Bearing Deposits of the South Siberian Platform
International Geology Review, Volume 17, p. 83 - 94


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