CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
156 Algeria (West) 32.46.12 N -- 000.40 W Garat Debba 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): Garat Debba
Political location(s): Algeria; Province or state: West
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; with vegetal debris in argillite or dissem in ss
Geologic province: West Saharian Atlas
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:argillite (green)
sandstone (white)
Host rock stratigraphy:Aissa, Tiloula, and Tiout Formations
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) with vegetal debris in argillite or dissem in ss; in some lenses tree trunks/ branches/ twigs are easily recognizable
References:
Caia, J., 1976
Paleogeographical and Sedimentological Controls of Copper, Lead and Zinc Mineralizations in the Lower Cretaceous Sandstones of Africa
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 409 - 422

Cailleux, A., 1962
Les Concentrations de Cuivre Stratiformes de l'Atlas Saharien, Algerie
3, in Gisements Stratiformes de Cuivre en Afrique: Symposium, 1 Partie, Lithologie, Sedimentologie (Stratiform Copper Deposits in Africa: Symposium Part 1, Lithology, Sedimentology), Edited by Lombard, J.; Nicolini, P., International Geological Congress (Copenhagen, 1960), African Geological Surveys, 1, 265 p, p. 33 - 42

Kolli, O., 1983
Copper Mineralization in Ain Sefra Area (West of Algeria)
in Mineral Deposits of the Alps and of the Alpine Epoch in Europe, Edited by Schneider, H. -J., Proceedings of 4th Ismida Oct 4-10/81, Special Publication of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Springer-Verlag, 3, 402 p, p. 291 - 297


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