CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
173 Angola 12.34 S -- 013.24 E English; Benguela 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): English; Benguela
Political location(s): Angola; Nearest community: Benguela
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in arenites and argillites as carbonates and oxides
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
grit
sandstone (feldspathic)
siltstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in arenites and argillites as carbonates & oxides; produced estimated 2000 tons of Cu ore during late 19th century; the clastic sequence thickens rapidly to the west
References:
Van Eden, J. G., 1978
Stratiform Copper and Zinc Mineralization in the Cretaceous of Angola
Economic Geology, Volume 7, p. 1154 - 1161


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