CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
327 Russia 57.15 N -- 113.30 E South Muya Range 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): South Muya Range
Political location(s): Russia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstone and siltstone horizon
Geologic province: Siberian Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Samodurovka Suite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone and siltstone horizon; visible part of cupriferous horizon is 9 km long in metamorphosed rock; mode of origin of Vitim & Udokan cupriferous rocks are similar
References:
Narkelyun, L. F.; Bezrodnykh, Y. P.; Kulakov, M. A., 1969
Copper Potential of Sedimentary Bodies in South of Siberian Platform
International Geology Review, Volume 11, p. 288 - 297

Salikhov, V. S., 1975
Postsedimentation Changes in Copper-Bearing Deposits of the South Siberian Platform
International Geology Review, Volume 17, p. 83 - 94


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