CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
119 Jordan 30.36 N -- 035.25 E Fenan 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): Fenan
Political location(s): Jordan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as dissem in sand bed or cavity fillings in clay
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:arkose
clay
silt
sandstone (variegated)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as dissem in sand bed or cavity fillings in clay; reserves are 110 m tonnes of 0.53% Cu in sandy/ 1.87% in clayey beds; ore is formed of chrysocolla/ malachite/ azurite
References:
Bender, F., 1974
Geology of Jordan
Gebruder Borntraeger, Berlin Stuttgart, 196 p.

Habashi, F.; Bassyowni, F. A., 1982
Jordan
6, in Mineral Resources of the Arab Countries, Laval University, Quebec, Edited by Habashi, F.; Bassyouni, F. A., Second Edition, Chemecon Publishing Limited, London, England, 60 p, p. 29 - 30

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

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1984; 65,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: approximate reserve - Fenan and Abu Kashaba
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.2 percent
Reference: United States Bureau of Mines (Editor(s)), 1984: Minerals Yearbook 1984; Volume, United States Bureau of Mines, 3
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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