CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
270 Iran 30.00.11 N -- 059.59.55 E Chehel Kureh 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): Chehel Kureh
Political location(s): Iran; Nearest community: Nostratabad (45 km NNE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstone and in lenses in sandstone and tuff
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Tertiary (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
limestone
shale

(2) volcanic; unclassified volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:volcanic (tuff)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone & in lenses in sandstone and tuff; abundant ancient slags represent extented period of mining & smelting; volcanic & sed rocks in area highly folded & cut by fault network
References:
Bazin, D.; Hubner, H., 1969
Copper Deposits in Iran
Report, Geological Survey of Iran, Publication code 13, 93 p.


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