CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
923 Morocco 29.46.00 N -- 008.45 W Tazalaght 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): 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

Resource data:
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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Reference: Kirkham, R. V., 1992: Unpublished Report; Unpublished Report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%

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