CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
120 Israel 32.45 N -- 035.40 E Nuqeib Area 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): Nuqeib Area
Political location(s): Israel; Nearest community: Engev (2 mi N)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in conglomerate horizon within calcareous ss
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neogene (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Host rock stratigraphy:Herod Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in conglomerate horizon within calcareous ss; mineralization near main fault of graben; ss usually silty or clayey/ cglt composed of ls/ chalk/ flint/ basalt
References:
Michelson, H., 1971
Copper Mineralization in the Herod Formation of the Southern Golan Heights, Israel
Journal of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, Volume 20

Schutz, K.I ., 1994
Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez Basin
in Interior Rift Basins, Edited by Landon, S. M., World Petroleum Basin Memoir , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 59, 257 p, p. 57 - 96


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