Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Velmo River; Velma Basin |
Political location(s): |
Russia; Province or state: Siberia; Subprovince or locality: Chapa and Teya Rivers |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; in limestone/ occasionally in sandstone |
Geologic province: |
Siberian Platform |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Middle Cambrian - Late Cambrian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstoneIndividual lithologies: | limestone marl (carbonaceous) siltstone sandstone dolomite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Evenki Formation (Upper and Middle Subformation) |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in limestone/ occasionally in sandstone; many occurrences along 250 km length of Velmo River; limestone very-clayey dolomitic/ oolitic/ algal or flinty concretions |
References: |
Bogdanov, Y. V.; Bur'yanova, E. Z.; Kutyrev, E. I.; Feoktistov, V. P.; Trifonov, N. P., 1973 |
Stratifitsirovannye Mestorozhdeniya Medi SSSR (Strata-Bound Copper Deposits of the USSR) |
Nedra Publishing House, Leningrad, 311 p. |
Miroshnikov, A. Y., 1981 |
Paleotectonics of the Middle and Late Cambrian Development Stage of the Angara Platform, Cupriferous Basin |
Geotectonics, Volume 15, p. 123 - 131 |
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