CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
169 Egypt 28.58 N -- 033.30 E Sarabit Al Khadmin 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): Sarabit Al Khadmin
Political location(s): Egypt
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstones in cleavages and bedding planes
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:sandstone
clay
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstones in cleavages & bedding planes; mineralogy-malachite-azurite-chrysocolla/ deposits cover 120 square km; Cu content 0.04-0.2% range/ 0.05-1.54% Cu in enriched parts
References:
Habashi, F.; Bassyowni, F. A., 1982
Egypt
3, in Mineral Resources of the Arab Countries, Laval University, Quebec, Edited by Habashi, F.; Bassyouni, F. A., Second Edition, Chemecon Publishing Limited, London, England, 60 p, p. 18 - 26

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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