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): |
Har Timna; Mount Timna |
Political location(s): |
Israel; Nearest community: Mount Timna |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; in micritic lenses in sandstone |
Geologic province: |
Timna Basin |
Commodities: |
Cu; U; Zn |
Geological ages: |
Early Cambrian (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marineIndividual lithologies: | sandstone (fine to gritty - black - white mottled) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Nehushtan Member, Timna Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in micritic lenses in sandstone; in stratiform-laminated manganese assemblages; 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 |
Schutz, K.I ., 1994 |
Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez Basin
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in Interior Rift Basins, Edited by Landon, S. M., World Petroleum Basin Memoir , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 59, 257 p, p. 57 - 96 |
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