CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
488 Saudi Arabia 18.28 N -- 042.03 E Um Ar Rumf 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): Um Ar Rumf
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; dissem in massive to layered (epiclastic) rock
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; unclassified metamorphic rocks; Metamorphic grade: epidote-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:metamorphic rock (epidote-biotite-quartz-feldspar)
Host rock stratigraphy:Ablah Group Equivalent
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in massive to layered (epiclastic) rock; rxs derived from massive med-fine gr epiclastic rxs/volc red bed type?; host rock contains evaporitic nodules & porphyroblasts
References:
Johnson, P. R.; Vranas, G. J., 1984
The Geotectonic Environments of Late Proterozoic Mineralisation in the Southern Arabian Shield
Precambrian Research, Volume 25, p. 329 - 348


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