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): |
Mangyshlak Peninsula - Tartala |
Political location(s): |
Kazakhstan; Subprovince or locality: Caspian Sea; Nearest community: west coast |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; in siliceous-feldspathic sandstone |
Geologic province: |
Mangyshlak Zone |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Triassic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone-siltstoneIndividual lithologies: | limestone (silty) siltstone sandstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Tartala Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in siliceous-feldspathic sandstone; formation contains several minor occurrences of copper mineralization; sandstone has calcareous and argilleceous cement |
References: |
Bogdanov, Y. V.; Bur'yanova, E. Z.; Kutyrev, E. I.; Feoktistov, V. P.; Trifonov, N. P., 1973 |
Stratifitsirovannye Mestorozhdeniya Medi SSSR (Strata-Bound Copper Deposits of the USSR) |
Nedra Publishing House, Leningrad, 311 p. |
Popov, V. M., 1962 |
Geologic Regularities in the Distribution of Cupriferous Sandstones in Central Kazakhstan |
International Geology Review, Volume 4, p. 393 - 411 |
Strakhov, N. M., 1962 |
Principles of Lithogenesis |
New York, Plenum Publishing Corporation, and Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 577 p. |
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