Aynak : a world-class sediment-hosted copper deposit, Afghanistan

Benham, Antony J.; Coats, Stan; Kovac, Peter; Norton, Gill. 2007 Aynak : a world-class sediment-hosted copper deposit, Afghanistan. In: 2007 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Denver, USA, 25-28 Feb 2007. 94-95. (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

The Aynak copper deposit, located 30 km south of Kabul in Afghanistan, was discovered by Soviet geologists in the 1970s. Extensive exploration undertaken in the area between 1974-80 included several hundred boreholes, seventy trenches and nine exploratory adits. This delineated several large ore bodies and smaller lenses with a total “drill-indicated resource” of 240 Mt at 2.3% Cu (ESCAP, 1995). The mineralisation at Aynak consists of disseminated bornite and chalcopyrite, mainly concentrated in a stratabound orebody in a cyclic succession of metamorphosed dolomites, marls, siltstones and carbonaceous pelites. A model proposes Cu was leached from underlying volcanic rocks and flowed up faults to deposit Cu sulphides into overlying sediments.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Paper)
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Economic Minerals
Additional Keywords:	Afghanistan, Aynak, mineral
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	06 Sep 2010 15:07 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10871

Item Type:

Publication - Conference Item (Paper)

Programmes:

BGS Programmes > Economic Minerals

Additional Keywords:

Afghanistan, Aynak, mineral

NORA Subject Terms:

Earth Sciences

Date made live:

06 Sep 2010 15:07 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10871