Geologic Regularities in the Distribution of Cupriferous Sandstones in Central Kazakhstan

Sandstone copper assessment of the Teniz Basin, Kazakhstan

“…Detailed geologic mapping and mineral exploration studies were conducted in Kazakhstan, after the Second World War, by the Dzhezkazgan Exploratory-Geologic Expedition (Popov, 1962). Areas with mineral-resource potential were mapped at scales ranging from 1:50,000 to 1:10,000.…”

“…The minerals maps show stream sediment survey results and location and relative size of mineral occurrences. A few English-language publications that specifically describe sediment-hosted copper mineralization in this area were published between 1960 and 1974 (Popov, 1962;Bogdanov and Feoktistov, 1972;Seyfullin and others, 1974). Those publications refer to an extensive Russian scientific literature that was not available for this study.…”

Sediment-hosted copper deposits of the world: Deposit models and database

“…The Dzhezkzagan deposit and other similar deposits and occurrences hosted by Carboniferous rocks are situated on the edge of the Chu Sari Su and Tengiz oil and gas fields. These fields have reservoir rocks of Carboniferous age (Popov, 1962). Gablina (1981) hypothesized that the Dzhezkzagan deposit was formed by mixing of brines with fluid hydrocarbons.…”