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): |
Devuli |
Political location(s): |
Zimbabwe; Subprovince or locality: Chipinga Area |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; in argillite/dolomite/arkose |
Geologic province: |
Umkondo Basin |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Middle Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstoneIndividual lithologies: | siltstone (argillitic) argillite arkose | Host rock stratigraphy: | Umkondo System |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in argillite/dolomite/arkose; representative of several occurrences confined to N-NW 50 km wide belt; belt represents mineralized zone formed in migrating sebkha environmen |
References: |
Button, A., 1977 |
Stratigraphic History of the Middle Proterozoic Umkondo Basin in the Chipinga Area, Southeastern Rhodesia |
Report of Economic Geology Research Unit, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Economic Geology Research Unit |
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