CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
162 Niger 16.59 N -- 007.56 E Agadez Cu; U
 
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): Agadez
Political location(s): Niger
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; of diagenetic origin in continental sediments
Commodities: Cu; U
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
argillite
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Assaouas and Irhazer Formations
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) of diagenetic origin in continental sediments; mineralization occurs at three distinct stratigraphic levels; compared to Cu-U deposits of Colorado-peneconcordant red-bed type
References:
Imreh, L., 1962
Les Mineralisations Cupriferes du Continental Intercalaire d'Agadez (Repulique du Niger)
Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (Section II), Volume 3, p. 51 - 108

Imreh, L., 1962
Caracteres Structuraux Des Horizons Renfermant Des Mineralisations Cupriferes ... D'agadez (Niger)
in Gisements Stratiformes de Cuivre en Afrique: Symposium, 2 Partie, Tectonique (Stratiform Copper Deposits in Africa: Symposium, Part 2, Tectonics), Edited by Lombard, J.; Nicolini, P., International Geological Congress (Lusaka, 1962), African Geological Surveys, 2, 265 p, p. 36 - 40

Nicolini, P., 1962
How Sedimentological Data can be Used in Search for Stratiform Mineral Deposits: Drafting of Provisional Curves
Chronique de la Recherche Miniere, Volume 309, p. 155 - 167


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