Stratabound sedimentary-exhalative (SEDEX) type copper deposit, hosted in Vendian-Cambrian arkosic sandstones, dolomites, amphibolites, calcareous slate and quartz-albite rocks. The deposit covers an area of 40 km2 and is exploited from three sections.
References
- Chernov, V.G., Bekbotaev, A.T., and Kudus, A. (1976): The original nature of the Precambrian amphibolites of the Aynak copper-ore field in the Kabul Zone. Thes. Papers V knige: IV Nauchno-metodicheskaya konferentsiya, Ku i KPI, Kabul, 1976: 102-104.
- Orris, G.J., and Bliss, J.D. (2002): Mines and Mineral Occurrences of Afghanistan. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-110.
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