Abstract
The territory of the Soviet Union is characterized by orogenic, platform and geosynclinal, copper-bearing zones. Major epochs of sedimentary copper accumulation are: Early and Late Proterozoic and Late Paleozoic, favouring generation of orogenic copper sandstone, and Middle Mesozoic, favouring the emplacement of copper — pyrrhotite mineralization in early geosynclinal black shale trough zones.
Different ways of evaluating areas with good potential are shown, based on the cyclic recurrence and facies features of copper-bearing sediments, as well as structure of productive strata in deposits.
The cyclic pattern of copper-bearing molasse sediments determines the morphology of productive strata, their simple or multicyclic structure. Flyschoid sediments contain copper sandstone with a simple structure of productive strata, having relatively small size.
Ore-bearing deposits of arid red beds are divisible into the following zones: (1) copper and polymetallic mineralization in red and variegated sediments of greywacke composition and (2) copper mineralization in variegated and red sediments of arkose composition and displaying thick cycles.
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Bogdanov, Y.V. (1986). Major Types of Copper-Bearing Zones in the Soviet Union. In: Friedrich, G.H., Genkin, A.D., Naldrett, A.J., Ridge, J.D., Sillitoe, R.H., Vokes, F.M. (eds) Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits. Special Publication No. 4 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70902-9_35
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