CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
271 Iran 31.00.02 N -- 051.20.06 E Khanegah 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): Khanegah
Political location(s): Iran; Nearest community: Mount Kuh-e-dena (3 km W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as local concentration zones in limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
limestone (dolomitic)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as local concentration zones in limestone; Khanegah Mine located at 2060 m altitude/ mine operated only 6 months; mineralized outcrops limited to 2 horizons-one 50m above lower one
References:
Bazin, D.; Hubner, H., 1969
Copper Deposits in Iran
Report, Geological Survey of Iran, Publication code 13, 93 p.


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