CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
123 Israel 29.46 N -- 034.57 E Timna Cu; Mn
 
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): Timna
Political location(s): Israel; Nearest community: Elat
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in sandstone and shaly sandstone
Geologic province: Timna Basin
Commodities: Cu; Mn
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-half-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:sandstone (white - black)
mudstone (red - green)
Host rock stratigraphy:Nehushtan and Mikhrot Members, Timna Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in sandstone and shaly sandstone; 3 deposits/cu associated with phosphorite lenses & laminae in shaly ss; 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

Bartura, Y.; Wurzburger, U., 1974
The Timna Copper Deposit
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 277 - 285

Segev, A.; Sass, E., 1989
Copper-enriched Syngenetic Dolostones as a Source for Epigenetic Dopper Mineralization in Sandstones and Shales (Timna, Israel)
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 647 - 658

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1974; 18,143,694 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.6 percent
Reference: Ridge, J. D. (Editor(s)), 1980: Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, Snowbird, Utah; Volume, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart , 1, 795 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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