CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
530 Morocco 30.28 N -- 007.30 W Tirzzit; Tirzitt 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): Tirzzit; Tirzitt
Political location(s): Morocco; Nearest community: Tazoult
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in green sandstone and red and green mudstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (red and green)
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Formation De Base
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green sandstone and red and green mudstone
References:
Elsass, P., 1975
Gites Stratiformes de Cuivre de l'Anti-Atlas Morocain
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Paris VI, 135 p.

Routhier, P., 1983
Where Are the Metals for the Future?
in The Metal Provinces-An Essay On Global Metallogeny, Edited by Routhier, P., Editions du BRGM, Bureau de Recherches Geologique et Minieres, France, Ch. 4.2, 400 p, p. 51 - 53


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