CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
324 Russia 58.00 N -- 107.30 E Irkutsk Amphitheater 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): Irkutsk Amphitheater
Political location(s): Russia; Subprovince or locality: NW of Lake Beikal
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in aleurolite/ grey sandstone/ argillite
Geologic province: Siberian Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Ordovician - Late Ordovician (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (aleurolite)
argillite
sandstone (grey and red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Krivolutsk (Middle) and Makarov (Upper) Suites
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in aleurolite/ grey sandstone/ argillite; several occurrences in area/rocks reconstituted by regional epigenesis
References:
Kulakov, M. K., 1976
Genetic Types of Stratiform Mineralization in the Irkutsk Amphitheater
Soviet Geology and Geophysics, Volume 17, p. 41 - 47

Narkelyun, L. F.; Bezrodnykh, Y. P.; Kulakov, M. A., 1969
Copper Potential of Sedimentary Bodies in South of Siberian Platform
International Geology Review, Volume 11, p. 288 - 297

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


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