CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
579 Afghanistan (Kabol Province) 34.22.20 N -- 069.22.40 E Khurdkabul 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): Khurdkabul
Political location(s): Afghanistan; Province or state: Kabol Province
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as veinlets and disseminations in host rocks
Deposit status: occurrence
Geologic province: Kabul Block
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: veinlets; disseminations
Geological ages: Vendian - Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:marble
phyllite
garnet-mical schist
carbonate
Mineralogy: (mineralization): covellite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as veinlets and disseminations in host rocks; 3 Cu-bearing zones 800-900m long & 5-50m thick/0.18-0.36% Cu over 5-37m

(Applies to: mineralization) Three Cu-bearing zones 800-900 m long and 5-50 m thick with irregular mineralization (veinlets, disseminated).
References:
Abdullah, S.; Chmyriov, V. M.; Stazhilo-Alekseev, K. F.; Dronov, V. I.; Gannon, P. J.; Lubemov, B. K.; Kafarskiy, A. K. H.; Malyarov, E. P., 1977
Mineral Resources of Afghanistan
Afghan Geological and Mines Survey, Ministry of Mines and Industries, Republic of Afghanistan, Publication code Edition 2, 419 p.

Orris, G. J.; Bliss, J. D., 2002
Mines and Mineral Occurrences of Afghanistan
Open File Report, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 02-110, 95 p.


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