CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
345 Zimbabwe 20.05 S -- 032.13 E Devuli 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): Devuli
Political location(s): Zimbabwe; Subprovince or locality: Chipinga Area
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in argillite/dolomite/arkose
Geologic province: Umkondo Basin
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (argillitic)
argillite
arkose
Host rock stratigraphy:Umkondo System
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in argillite/dolomite/arkose; representative of several occurrences confined to N-NW 50 km wide belt; belt represents mineralized zone formed in migrating sebkha environmen
References:
Button, A., 1977
Stratigraphic History of the Middle Proterozoic Umkondo Basin in the Chipinga Area, Southeastern Rhodesia
Report of Economic Geology Research Unit, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Economic Geology Research Unit


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