Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Jabal Sharbon |
Political location(s): |
Saudi Arabia |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; dissem in intraformational cglm/marble/amphibolite |
Geologic province: |
Arabian Shield |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; carbonate-conglomerateIndividual lithologies: | conglomerate marble | Host rock stratigraphy: | Ablah Group |
(2) metamorphic; amphibolite; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: mafic; Metamorphic grade: amphiboliteIndividual lithologies: | amphibolite |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in intraformational cglm/marble/amphibolite; pyrite & chalcopyrite up to 1.4% Cu expressed as malachite & limonite; within basal clastic member of Ablah Group/ possibly volc red bed type |
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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