CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
115 Russia (Ural Mountains) 53.55 N -- 054.55 E Urshak 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): Urshak
Political location(s): Russia; Province or state: Ural Mountains
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in marine beds of gray sandstone above red beds
Geologic province: Russian Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Kazanian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in marine beds of gray sandstone above red beds; Mansfeld type/ Cu confined to basal sandstone & limestone; lingula unit overlies Kazanian sequence which overlies Ufimian stage
References:
Davidson, C. F., 1965
A Possible Mode of Origin of Strata-Bound Copper Ores
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 942 - 954

Lurye, A. M., 1972
Mineralization of the Mansfeld Type in the Upper Permian of the West Ural Region
Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Volume 203, p. 61 - 63

Lur'ye, A. M.; Gablina, I. F., 1972
The Copper Source in Production of Mansfeld-Type Deposits in the West Ural for eland
Geochemistry International, Volume 9, p. 56 - 67

Lur'ye, A. M., 1986
Formation Conditions of Copper-Sandstone and Copper-Shale Deposits
in Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits, Edited by Friedrich, G. H.; Genkin, A. D.; Naldrett, A. J.; Ridge, J. D.; Sillitoe, R. H.; Vokes, F. M., Proceedings of 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow 1984, Springer-Verlag, 592 p, p. 477 - 491


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