MAJOR ORE TYPES OF INDIA, THEIR ROCK

ASSOCIATIO
NS AND
TECTONIC
SETTING
ORE DEPOSIT
AND GEOLOGICAL
TECTONIC SETTING LOCALITY
ASSOCIATED AGE
ROCKS
RELATED TO
BASIC/ULTRABASIC
1.
IGNEOUS
INTRUSIVES.
Early
Proterozo
Stratiform deposits Kondepalle ic
1.1 in layered Cratons Sitampundi Early
complexes Hassan Proterozo
in
Archaean
MASSIVE SULFIDE
DEPOSITS IN
2.
VOLCANIC
ASSOCIATION
Archaean
Archaea
Cupreferous Kalyadi (S. nE.
Riftridges/island
deposits India) Proterozo
2.1 arcs/cratonmargin
associated with Ingaldahl ic
dislocations.
mafic volcanics Singhbhum EarlyLate
Proterozo
ic
3. ORES IN SEDIMENTS
MidLate
Sediment hosted Ensialic Rift
3.1 Khetri Proterozo
sulfide deposits Basins
ic
Ensialic Rift Archaean
Leadzinc ores in Basins/Epicontine Agucha MidLate
3.2
clastic sediments ntal RajpuraDariba Proterozo
Basins ic
Leadzinc ores in Ensialic Rift
Early
carbonate rocks Basins/Epicontine
3.3 Zawar Proterozo
(Bulk Mississippi ntal
ic
Valley type) Basins
Archaea
Greenstone Bababuda nE.
Iron Ores
3.4 Belts/Epicontine nSandur Proterozo
1 Banded Iron
3.4. ntal Bihar ic
Formations
Basins Orissa Late
Archaean
3.5 Manganese Ores Ensialic BiharOrissa Late
Basins/epicontine Madhya Pradesh Archaean
 ntal Mid Late
seas/eugeosynclin Maharashtra Proterozo
es ic
ORE DEPOSITS
ASSOCIATED WITH
4. ACIDINTERMEDIATE
PLUTONIC/HYPABYS
SAL ROCKS
Early-
Orogenic
Porphyrytype Middle
4.1 belts/subduction Malanjkhand
copper deposits Proterozo
zones
ic
Orogenic belts
Late
Tintungsten with Chhendapathar(?
4.2 Proterozo
deposits ensialic )
ic
magmatism
VEIN DEPOSITS IN
5. METAMORPHOSED
ROCKS
Greenstone belts
and Kolar Archaean
5.1 Goldquartz veins
Phanerozoic Hutti Archaean
orogens
Uranium veins in
shear zones Regional shear zones Singhbhum M Pro id te drlo ez L oa ic te
LATERITIC DEPOSITS
Bauxite deposits Continental platforms
BiharMadhya
5.2
Pradesh
Phanerozoic
Lateritic Ni
deposits Nonspecific
Sukinda Phanerozoic
6.

6.1

6.2