CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
452 India (Gujarat) 24.40.48 N -- 072.51.00 E Ambaji Cu; Pb; Zn
 
Database name: World Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits
Custodial agency: Society of Economic Geologists & Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: J. M. Franklin, H. L. Gibson, I. R. Jonasson, and A. G. Galley
Release date: 2015-03-23
   
Deposit name(s): Ambaji (deposit name)
Political location(s): India; Province or state: Gujarat
Deposit clan (type): Volcanogenic massive sulphide
Deposit (sub) types: Bimodal mafic; 1
Geologic province: Aravelli-Delhi
Geologic subprovince: Aravalli Range
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Late Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Radiometric ages: Age - Ma: 1,087; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: approximate age reported in SEG Centennial Volume appendix
References:
Deb, M; Thorpe, R. I.; Cumming, G. L., 1989
Age, Source and Stratigraphic Implications of Pb Isotope Data for Conformable, Sediment-hosted, Base Metal Deposits in the Proterozoic Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt, Northwestern India
Precambrian Research, Volume 43, p. 1 - 2022

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.

8.29 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.75 percent
Pb: 4.91 percent
Zn: 5.52 percent
Reference: Franklin, J. M.; Gibson, H. L.; Jonasson, I. R.; Galley, A. G., 2005: Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits; Appendices on CD-ROM, Section [Franklin] Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits, in Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Special Volume, Society of Economic Geology, 1146 p., 1 disks
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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