CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
484 Saudi Arabia 19.12 N -- 041.47 E Al Munayzir 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): Al Munayzir
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in quartz-mica-chlorite schist and quartzite
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; schist
Individual lithologies:schist (coarse grained)
Host rock stratigraphy:Ablah Group

(2) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:quartzite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in quartz-mica-chlorite schist & quartzite; up to 0.3% Cu over 15-metre strike length/possibly volc red bed type; within basal clastic member of Ablah Group/minor evaporites indicated
References:
Johnson, P. R.; Vranas, G. J., 1984
The Geotectonic Environments of Late Proterozoic Mineralisation in the Southern Arabian Shield
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 329 - 348


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