CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
580 Afghanistan (Kabol Province) 34.23.53 N -- 069.18.20 E Ghuldarra - I; Ghuldarra - II 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): Ghuldarra - I; Ghuldarra - II
Political location(s): Afghanistan; Province or state: Kabol Province; Nearest community: Ghuldarra
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in marble
Deposit status: occurrence
Geologic province: Kabul Block
Deposit object located: Ghuldarra - I zone
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Vendian - Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:marble
Mineralogy: (mineralization): covellite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, malachite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in marble; 2 occurrences close by: i has two mineralized zones & ii has one zone

(Applies to: mineralization) Ghudarra - I consists of two zones with disseminated Cu mineralization. One zone is 1000 m long and 25-35 m thick; the other is 450 m long and 10-80 m thick (Orris and Bliss, 2002). Less is reported for Ghudarra - II, which is in a slightly different location, and consists of a zone 30-50 m long and 2-5 m thick which also occurs in marble.
References:
Abdullah, S.; Chmyriov, V. M.; Stazhilo-Alekseev, K. F.; Dronov, V. I.; Gannon, P. J.; Lubemov, B. K.; Kafarskiy, A. K. H.; Malyarov, E. P., 1977
Mineral Resources of Afghanistan
Afghan Geological and Mines Survey, Ministry of Mines and Industries, Republic of Afghanistan, Publication code Edition 2, 419 p.

Orris, G. J.; Bliss, J. D., 2002
Mines and Mineral Occurrences of Afghanistan
Open File Report, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 02-110, 95 p.


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