CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
490 Saudi Arabia 19.14 N -- 043.35 E Jabal Muwaygirah Zn; Cu; Pb
 
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): Jabal Muwaygirah
Political location(s): Saudi Arabia
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; supergene mineralization in dolomitic marble
Geologic province: Arabian Shield
Commodities: Zn; Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:marble (dolomitic)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) supergene mineralization in dolomitic marble; sulphide minerals not detected/ variant of Ash Sha Ib type; marble occurs with amphibolite & amphibole-feldspar-quartz gneiss
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

Resource data:
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140,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 2.5 percent
Reference: Vedia, M. J.; Cortez, A. G., 1966: Informe Sobre Orientacion Tecnica Mina Cuprifera Eduardo Abaroa; Informe, Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Publication code GB-M-495
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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