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Chalcopyrite from
Wadi Qatan, Najran Region, Saudi Arabia


Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wadi Qatan, Najran Region, Saudi Arabia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:786808
Long-form Identifier:1:3:786808:5
GUID (UUID V4):b99deccd-851b-4c07-9353-c4ef59d52798
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
47.1km (29.3 miles) Al Masane Mine (Al Massane Mine), Najran Region, Saudi Arabia
83.0km (51.6 miles) Kutam Cu-Zn Deposit, 'Asir Region, Saudi Arabia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
area, Southeastern Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by I/ Clay M. Conway Open-File Report 85- ...Ministry for Mineral Resources, Jiddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia This report is preliminary and has not been......... Photograph of pillow structures in upper Wadi Saadah..................................... Sketch.................... Photograph of basalt crossing Wadi Saadah.... Photograph of large antiform in the shale...Average base- and precious-metal contents of the Wadi Saadah gossan...................... Trace-element
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN PROJECT REPORT 201 MINERAL DEPOSITS IN WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA by Ralph J...Kiilsgaard U. S. Geological Survey Jiddah, Saudi Arabia 1975 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT................structural trends in Saudi Arabia........... 10 TYPES OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA...... 11 Precambrian......... 15 Wadi Bidah......................... 16 Mahawiyah-Bahah area............... Wadi Yiba............. Wadi Shwas......................... Ar-Ridaniyah deposit............... Al Masane (Wadi Hizmah)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mackinawite in nickel mineralization at Wadi Qatan, Saudi Arabia NICKELIAN mackinawite is a common alteration...discusses a possible mechanism for its formation. At Wadi Qatan, a lens of fine-grained, pyrrhotine-pentlandite...pyrrhotine with pentlandite and minor amounts of chalcopyrite, cubanite, alabandine, and molybdenite. Nickelian...Mineralization and Gossans in the Wadi Wassat-Wadi Qatan Region, Saudi Arabia. Trans. lnsm. Min. Metall. In...galena and sphalerite in quartz gangue with minor chalcopyrite, pyrite, baryte, and pyrargyrite. Tetrahedrite
Report (issue)
STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN MISSION TECHNICAL RECORD 19 GOLD PLACER...MOKHYAT AREA, SOUTHERN NAJD PROVINCE, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA by DwightL. Schmidt, Willard P. Puffett, Wesley...MINERAL RESOURCES JIDDAH SAUDI ARABIA 1981 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN MISSION TECHNICAL...MOKHYAT AREA, SOUTHERN NAJD PROVINCE, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA by Dwight L. Schmidt, Willard P. Puffett, Wesley...H. Al-Koulak U.S. Geological Survey Jiddah, Saudi Arabia 1981 The work on which this report was based
Report (issue)
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN MISSION TECHNICAL RECORD 8 (INTERAGENCY REPORT 347) A LEAD-ISOTOPE...nomenclature. U.S. Geological Survey Jiddah, Saudi Arabia 1981 The work on which this report is based...Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. CONTENTS ABSTRACT.........................Arabian Shield............ Plumbotectonics in Saudi Arabia.......................... Precambrian whole-ore...of the Arabian Shield... 2. Map of the Red Sea region showing locations of samples from this study and
Report (issue)
.................. Pyritic andesine gabbro from Wadi Agnam .............. Slag from iron smelting at............. Comparison with similar rocks in Saudi Arabia ............. Exploration techniques suitable........... Relations at auriferous placers in Saudi Arabia .............. General observations in the Yemen...Ma and 600 Ma ago, southern Najd, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Schmidt, Hadley, and Stoeser, 1979, fig. 4)...the Jabal Mokhyat gold placer area, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (from Schmidt and others, 1982, fig. 5; carbon-14
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mackinawite in nickel mineralization at Wadi Qatan, Saudi Arabia NICKELIAN mackinawite is a common alteration...discusses a possible mechanism for its formation. At Wadi Qatan, a lens of fine-grained, pyrrhotine-pentlandite...pyrrhotine with pentlandite and minor amounts of chalcopyrite, cubanite, alabandine, and molybdenite. Nickelian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Resources, P.O. Box 1488, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 21431 Can. J. Earth Sci. Downloaded from www...Anomalous Ni concentrations in the Late Proterozoic Saudi Arabian Shield are associated with three principal...pyrite. This mineralogy contrasts with a pyrite + chalcopyrite sphalerite assemblage that characterizes most...(Cyprus type) or with a pyrrhotite + pentlandite + chalcopyrite + pyrite assemblage that characterizes volcanic...of the nickeliferous gossans of the Jabal Mardah region. These deposits are similar to other Ni-rich massive-sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization and Gossans in the Wadi Wassat-Wadi Qatan Region, Saudi Arabia. Trans. lnsm. Min. Metall. In...galena and sphalerite in quartz gangue with minor chalcopyrite, pyrite, baryte, and pyrargyrite. Tetrahedrite...been ground but not polished. The cross-hatched region represents the palimpsest, which appears dark in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrothermal nickelian mackinawite from Wadi Qatan, Saudi Arabia, 284 BLAND (D. J.), anal. by, 468 Blende...barian orthoclase, solid solution limits, 294 Chalcopyrite, I.R. spectrum, 277 and MI7 Chalybite, see Siderite...M37 Crystal optics, theory of, I9 Cubanite, Saudi Arabia, 284 Cummingtonite, Grand Canyon, Arizona, anal...margin off Morocco, 22I Mackinawite, nickelian, Saudi Arabia, anal., 284; nickelian and cuproan, W. Australia...I8 Molybdenite, I.R. spectrum, 227 and MI7; Saudi Arabia, 284 Monazite, Rockall, Inverness-shire, 35
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Saudi Arabia Investigation Report (IR) SA-117 RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGY OF THE WADI WASSAT QUADRANGLE...QUADRANGLE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA . by William C. Overstreet and Darwin L. Rossman U.S. Geological Survey... RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGY OF THE WADI WASSAT QUADRANGLE, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA by William C. Overstreet ...Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, the Saudi Arabian Government and the U. S. Geological Survey...the mineral potential of central and western Saudi Arabia. The results of this program are being released
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN MISSION PROJECT REPORT 264 THE JABAL ISHMAS-WADI TATHLITH GOLD BELT...BELT, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA by Ronald G. Worl *;°eol °8loal Sui Survey ^^mERBPQR* )RT 7f;hl «'report is...MINERAL RESOURCES JIDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA 1979 U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN PROJECT REPORT 264...264 THE JABAL ISHMAS-WADI TATHLITH GOLD BELT, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA by Ronald G. Worl U.S. Geological...Geological Survey Jiddah, Saudi Arabia 1979 This report is preliminary and has not been edited or reviewed
Report (issue)
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAUDI ARABIAN MISSION TECHNICAL RECORD 17 (INTERAGENCY REPORT 372) IRON SULFIDE...SULFIDE DEPOSITS AT WADI WASSAT, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA by Ralph J. Roberts, Darwin L. Rossman, Abdulaziz...editorial standards. U.S. Geological Survey Jiddah, Saudi Arabia 1981 The work on which this report was based...identification method used in U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabian Mission reports is shown below. 23° 41°........................... 2 2 4 GEOLOGY OF THE WADI WASSAT AREA........................ 4 Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
predominant and coexists with minor pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and bornite; a single inclusion in a Ronda sample...(light grey) veined along the (100) cleavagesby chalcopyrite and externally rimmed by native copper (white);...predominant pentlandite and minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Thus, the resulting assemblage is slightly...scalloped border, surrounded by pyrrhotite and (or) chalcopyrite (Fig. 2B). By analogy with the sulfide inclusions...average proportions of pentlandite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite are a primary feature of the intergranular assemblages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similar to the same interatomic distance in chalcopyrite. The presence of a five-coordinated metal in...mackinawite in nickel mineralization at Wadi Qatan, Saudi Arabia. Mineralogical Magazine, 42, 284–286.
Report (issue)
Nabitah Fault Zone, Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia James E. Quick and Paul S. Bosch Open-File...with the Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia This report is preliminary and has not been................ 42 15 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 Wadi Khadra............................. 17 Overview........................... 46 Applications to Saudi Arabia............ 46 REFERENCES...... 64 IMPLICATIONS...of the Bi'r Nafazi area. 4. Geologic map of the Wadi Khadra area. 5. Geologic map of the Jabal al Qub
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complexes. This can be illustrated by the Pechenga region in the north-western part of the Kola peninsula...sulphide coppernickel deposits of the Pechenga region were subjected to metamorphism together with ore-bearing...ultrabasic and sedimentary rocks. In the Pechenga region the regressive dislocational metamorphism took...different stages of its transformation into a folded region. Such deposits include chromite ores, associated...and associated endogenous deposits vary from region to region. It has been established that Mesozoic and
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