>Reading the descriptions pertaining to "Unconformity-related U-Au-PGE
>deposits" in NW Australia amounts to reading a catalog of Western Katanga
>paragenetic and geological particularities.
>
>I know the older literature, and I don't remember having read anything
>about that similarity.
>
>Does somebody remember if the Lufilian (Katangan) Copperbelt has somehow
>been classified among, or associated with, Unconformity-related deposits?
>
>Many thanks, Jacques Jedwab
The only related paper I know of is:
Hoeve J. and D. Quirt , 1989, A common diagenetic-hydrothermal origin
for unconformity-type uranium and stratiform copper deposits?
Chaper 10, in Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposits, Geological
Association of Canada Special Paper 36, Edited by R.W. Boyle, A.C.
Brown, C.W. Jefferson, E.C. Jowett, & R.V. Kirkham.
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