CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
111 Russia (Siberia) 56.30 N -- 118.10 E Udokan 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): Udokan
Political location(s): Russia; Province or state: Siberia; Subprovince or locality: Udokan Range
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in deltaic and shallow water carbonate sediments
Geologic province: Siberian Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic - Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent; Formal name: South Aldan rift zone (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (quartzitic calcareous)
siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Udokan Series, Sakukan Suite, and Chiney Series
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in deltaic & shallow water carbonate sediments; 4 deposits cover 300 square km area in taiga region; thickness of individual ore layers & seams varies-0.2 to a few meters
References:
Bakun, N. N.; Volodin, R. N.; Krendelev, F. P., 1964
Genesis of Udokansk Cupriferous Sandstone Deposit
International Geology Review, Volume 8, p. 455 - 466

Bezrodnykh, Y. P., 1967
Conditions of Formation of Associations of some Copper and Silver Minerals in the Supergene Zone of the Udokansk Copper Deposit
Geochemistry International, Volume 2, p. 135 - 149

Bogdanov, Y. V., 1962
Geology and Genesis of the Cupriferous Sandstones in Ukokan Region (Eastern Siberia)
Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Volume 145, p. 110 - 111

Bogdanov, Y. V., 1971
The Isotopic Composition of Sulfur in Stratiform Copper Deposits of the Olekma-Vitim Highlands
International Geology Review, Volume 13, p. 1405 - 1417

Jowett, E.C., 1989
Effects of Continental Rifting on the Location and Genesis of Stratiform Copper-silver Deposits
Section Introduction, General Principles and Geochemical Aspects, 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. 53 - 66

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

Sutulov, A., 1973
Mineral Resources and the Economy of the USSR
Engineering and Mining Journal, 192 p.

Volfson, F. I., 1972
The Conditions of Formation of Cupriferous Sandstone Deposits
Lithology and Mineral Resources, Volume 7, p. 268 - 279

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1985; 1,200,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated reserve - 4 deposits
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1985: Bureaucracy Snarls Exploitation of USSR Copper; Engineering and Mining Journal, July issue, p. 20
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


1,200,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: gross reserve - 20 % oxides and 80 % sulphides
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.5 percent
Reference: Strishkov, V. V., 1977: Mineral Industries of the U.S.S.R.; Mineral Perspectives , United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., Publication code 2, 19 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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