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): |
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-conglomerateIndividual lithologies: | conglomerate grit sandstone (feldspathic) siltstone |
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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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