CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
307 Laos 14.28 N -- 105.41 E Houei Phai 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): Houei Phai
Political location(s): Laos; Nearest community: Ban Soukhouma (4 km S)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in green sandstone overlying barren red beds
Geologic province: Champassak Plain
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
shale
claystone
mudstone (carbonaceous)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green sandstone overlying barren red beds; Cu mineralization extends discontinuously over area 15 km by 5 km; green cupriferous layers occur immediately below laterite horizon
References:
Fontaine, H.; Workman, D. R., 1978
Review of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Kampuchea, Laos and Vietnam
in Third Regional Conference on Geology and Mineral Resources of Southeast Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, November 14-18, 1978, Edited by Nutalaya, P., Proceedings, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, 887 p, p. 541

Workman, D. R.; Division of Industry and Natural Resources, ECAFE, 1972
Mineral Resources of the Lower Mekong Basin and Adjacent Areas of Khmer Republic, Laos, Thailand and Republic of Viet-Nam
Mineral Resources Development Series, United Nations, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Division of Industry and Natural Resources, Publication code 39, 148 p.


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