CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
574 Brazil 03.31.30 S -- 041.08.00 W Pedra Verde 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): Pedra Verde
Political location(s): Brazil
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in black phyllite of pedra verde member
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:mudstone (metapelitic - carbonaceous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Martinopolis Group, Mambira Fm, Pedra Verde Member

(2) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:phyllite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in black phyllite of Pedra Verde member; ore minerals follow well defined zoning from hanging-wall to footwall; phyllite occurs just below enriched zone of iron oxide (red zone)
References:
Brizzi, A. S.; Roberto, F. A., 1988
Jazida de Cobre de Pedra Verde, Vicosa Do Ceara, Ceara
in Os Principais Depositos Minerais Do Brasil, Edited by Schobbenhaus, C.; Coelho, C. E. S., Principal Deposits of Brazil, Volume 3, 670 p, p. 74 - 80

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1987; 11,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1 percent
Ag: 10 grams/metric ton
Reference: Schobbenhaus, C.; Coelho, C. E. S. (Editor(s)), 1988: Os Principais Depositos Minerais Do Brasil; Principal Deposits of Brazil, Volume 3, 670 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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