COPPER-BEARING SANDSTONES OF KAZAKHSTAN

SYUSYURA, Boris, Mining & Economic Consulting Ltd, 28/17 Gabdullina Street, Almaty, 050013, Kazakhstan, boris@2k.kz

Sediment-hosted copper deposits in Kazakhstan are hosted by red-colored sandstones and shales of Silurian to Permian-Triassic age. All of the mineable deposits (Dzhezkazgan, Zhaman-Aibat, and Zhilandinskaya group) are localized by syndepositional brachy-anticlines within Permian-Carboniferous red-colored formations of the Chu Sarysu basin. The location and paragenesis of these copper deposits is related to the accumulation of petroleum and natural gas. Numerous sediment-hosted copper occurrences in other regions are related to disseminated coalified organic matter in red-colored sedimentary rocks that formed small centers of copper-accumulation and scattered copper mineralization.

Session No. 241

T149. Copper in Central Eurasia and Russia: Linking Mineral Resource Assessment, Tectonics, and Metallogeny

Wednesday, 21 October 2009: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

B116 (Oregon Convention Center)

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 41, No. 7

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