CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
125 Saudi Arabia 25.30.30 N -- 037.14 E Jabal Dhaylan (JM 6 and JM 10) Pb; Zn; 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): Jabal Dhaylan (JM 6 and JM 10)
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as impregnations and replacement of cement in arkose
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Cu
Geological ages: Oligocene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:arkose (brown biege)
shale (red)
shale (red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Umm Lajj Red Bed Sequence
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as impregnations & replacement of cement in arkose; two very minor occurrences-same area/in normal or conglomeratic arkose; mineralized zones occur as indistinct patches from several cm to 20 m
References:
Dadet, P., 1970
Zinc Lead and Copper Mineralization in Cenozoic Sedimentary Rocks at Jabal Dhaylan
in Mineral Resources Research 1968-69, Edited by Saudi Arabian Ministry of Petroleum, Mineral Res., Saudi Arabia Directorate General of Mineral Industries, Jiddah, 209 p., 2 maps, p. 18 - 23

Dadet, P., 1970
Mineral Occurrences Related to Stratigraphy and Tectonics in Tertiary Sediments near Umm Lajj Eastern Red Sea Area, Saudi Arabia
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, Mathematica, Volume 267, p. 99 - 106

Schutz, K.I ., 1994
Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez Basin
in Interior Rift Basins, Edited by Landon, S. M., World Petroleum Basin Memoir , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 59, 257 p, p. 57 - 96


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