CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
118 Jordan 30.25 N -- 035.15 E Abu Kashabia 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): Abu Kashabia
Political location(s): Jordan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as dissem in sand bed or cavity fillings in clay
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:arkose
clay
silt
sand (variegated)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as dissem in sand bed or cavity fillings in clay; reserves are 18 million tonnes of 0.53% Cu in sand/1.87% Cu in clay; ore is formed of chrysocolla/ malachite/ azurite
References:
Bender, F., 1974
Geology of Jordan
Gebruder Borntraeger, Berlin Stuttgart, 196 p.

Habashi, F.; Bassyowni, F. A., 1982
Jordan
6, in Mineral Resources of the Arab Countries, Laval University, Quebec, Edited by Habashi, F.; Bassyouni, F. A., Second Edition, Chemecon Publishing Limited, London, England, 60 p, p. 29 - 30

Schutz, K.I ., 1994
Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez Basin
in Interior Rift Basins, Edited by Landon, S. M., World Petroleum Basin Memoir , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 59, 257 p, p. 57 - 96


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