CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2017 Kazakhstan (Mangistau) 44.02.00 N -- 053.03.00 E Zhezdybassai 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): Zhezdybassai
Political location(s): Kazakhstan; Province or state: Mangistau; Nearest community: Shetpe, Mangistau (35 km E)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Geologic province: Western Kazakhstan
Geologic district: Mangistau
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound; vein(s)
Geological ages: Early Tertiary (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding; Coincident feature name: Taushikskaya suite
Regional tectonic structure: anticline (periclinal close) Tectonic structure name: Besshokinskaya anticline
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Taushikskaya suite
Mineralogy: (mineralization): tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, covellite, pyrite
References:
Zhukov, N.M.; Kolesnikov, V.V; Miroshnichenko, L.M.; Egembaev, K.M.; Pavlova, Z.N.; Bakarasov, E.V. (compilers), 1998
(unknown title)
in Copper Deposits of Kazakhstan, Edited by Adbulin, A. A.; Bespaev, C. Z.; Miroshnichenko, L. A.; Votsalevskiy, E.S., Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan


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