Hajar

MoroccoUnknown
Contained Copper
—
Average Grade
0.60%
Deposit Type
VMS — Bimodal-Felsic
Discovery Year
1984

Overview

Two massive lenses, larger one dips 45?NE. 400 m down-dip length, 90 m wide, 1 to 30 m thick. Footwall stockwork zone, but not economic. Buried gossan caps deposit. Calc-alkaline island arc setting at active continental margin. Co and Sn is present. Rhyolite tuff has been thought to be chloritic siltstone.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Operator: 576

Production Start: 1992

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS