CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
163 Morocco (East) 31.30 N -- 002.58 W Merija Cu; Pb
 
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): Merija
Political location(s): Morocco; Province or state: East; Nearest community: Meridja
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in terrigenous detrital sed rxs in paleochannels
Geologic province: Marginal Fold Region
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: epicontinental basin; stable (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
sandstone (white)
siltstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in terrigenous detrital sed rxs in paleochannels; mineralization associated w carbonate cement/surrounds detrital grains; host deposited in laguno-deltaic conditions-continent & basin boundary
References:
Caia, J., 1976
Paleogeographical and Sedimentological Controls of Copper, Lead and Zinc Mineralizations in the Lower Cretaceous Sandstones of Africa
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 409 - 422

Resource data:
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30,000 metric ton metal; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.5 percent
weight-commodity information:Cu: 30,000 metric ton
Reference: Wolf, K. H., 1981: Handbook of Stratabound and Stratiform Ore Deposits; Elsevier Scientifir Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 576 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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