CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
217 Namibia 23.48 S -- 016.38 E Klein Aub 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): Klein Aub
Political location(s): Namibia; Nearest community: Rehoboth (70 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; finely disseminated in dark argillites
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: turbidite; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:argillite
argillite (calcareous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Klein Aub Formation, Sinclair Sequence Equivalent
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) finely disseminated in dark argillites; 7 known mineralized beds 1-2m thick/to 1m along strike/ 500m down dip
References:
Anhaeusser, C. R.; Button, A., 1973
A Petrographic and Mineragraphic Study of the Copper-Bearing Formations in the Witvlei Area, Southwest Africa
Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, Volume 76, p. 279 - 299

Borg, G., 1987
Controls on Stratabound Copper Mineralization at Klein Aub Mine and Similar Deposits within the Kalahari Copperbelt of Southwest Africa, Namibia and Botswana
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Witswatersrand, 107 p.

Maiden, K. J.; Innes, A. H.; King, M. J.; Master, S.; Pettitt, I., 1984
Regional Controls on the Localization of Stratabound Copper Deposits: Proterozoic Examples from Southern Africa and South Australia
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 99 - 118

Maiden, K. J.; Innes, A. H.; King, M. J.; Master, S.; Pettitt, I., 1984
Regional Controls on the Localization of Stratabound Copper Deposits-Proterozoic Examples from Southern Africa and South Australia
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 99 - 118

Miller, R. M., 1980
Southwest Africa/Namibia, Geological Map
Geological Survey of the Republic of South Africa and South West Africa/Namibia

Production data: Report period: from 1967; 8,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Ag: 45 grams/metric ton
Reference: Borg, G., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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10,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: original resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Ag: 45 grams/metric ton
Reference: Borg, G., 1986: Personal Communication
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


7,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: pre-production reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Ag: 50 grams/metric ton
Reference: Borg, G.; Maiden, K. J., 1989: The Middle Proterozoic Kalahari Copperbelt of Namibia and Botswana; in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 525 - 540
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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