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): |
Timna |
Political location(s): |
Israel; Nearest community: Elat |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; disseminated in sandstone and shaly sandstone |
Geologic province: |
Timna Basin |
Commodities: |
Cu; Mn |
Geological ages: |
Early Cambrian (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental rift-half-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marineIndividual lithologies: | sandstone (white - black) mudstone (red - green) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Nehushtan and Mikhrot Members, Timna Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in sandstone and shaly sandstone; 3 deposits/cu associated with phosphorite lenses & laminae in shaly ss; Mn-rich laminae alternate with phosphatic- Cu- & detrital-rich laminae |
References: |
Bar-Matthews, M., 1987 |
The Genesis of Uranium in Manganese and Phosphorite Assemblages, Timna Basin, Israel |
Geological Magazine, Volume 124, p. 211 - 229 |
Bartura, Y.; Wurzburger, U., 1974 |
The Timna Copper Deposit |
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 277 - 285 |
Segev, A.; Sass, E., 1989 |
Copper-enriched Syngenetic Dolostones as a Source for Epigenetic Dopper Mineralization in Sandstones and Shales (Timna, Israel) |
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 647 - 658 |
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Resource data: |
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported. |
Estimate date: 1974; 18,143,694 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserveGrade-commodity information: | Cu: 1.6 percent | Reference: Ridge, J. D. (Editor(s)), 1980: Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, Snowbird, Utah; Volume, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart , 1, 795 p. Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |