CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
106 Kazakhstan 44.28 N -- 050.45 E Mangyshlak Peninsula - Tartala 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): Mangyshlak Peninsula - Tartala
Political location(s): Kazakhstan; Subprovince or locality: Caspian Sea; Nearest community: west coast
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in siliceous-feldspathic sandstone
Geologic province: Mangyshlak Zone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:limestone (silty)
siltstone
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Tartala Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in siliceous-feldspathic sandstone; formation contains several minor occurrences of copper mineralization; sandstone has calcareous and argilleceous cement
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.

Popov, V. M., 1962
Geologic Regularities in the Distribution of Cupriferous Sandstones in Central Kazakhstan
International Geology Review, Volume 4, p. 393 - 411

Strakhov, N. M., 1962
Principles of Lithogenesis
New York, Plenum Publishing Corporation, and Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 577 p.


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