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Wadi Araba Copper District - Feinan, Faynan, Phaino, Khirbet el Nahas, Abu-Khusheiba
Jordan
Main commodities: Cu Mn




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2015.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Feinan

Khirbet el Nahas

Wadi Abu Khushaybah

    Selected References
Alnawafleh, H., Tarawneh, K. and Alrawashdeh, R.,  2013 - Geologic and economic potentials of minerals and industrial rocks in Jordan: in    Natural Science,   v.5, pp. 756-769.
Hauptmann, A., Begemann, F., Heitkemper, E., Pernicka, E. and Schmitt-Strecker, S.  1992 - Early Copper Produced at Feinan, Wadi Araba, Jordan: The Composition of Ores and Copper: in    Archeomaterials,   v.6, pp. 1-33.
Ilani, S, Flexer, A. and Kronfeld, J.,  1987 - Copper mineralization in sedimentary cover associated with tectonic elements and volcanism in Israel: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.22, pp. 269-277.
Zientek, M.L., Wintzer, N.E., Hayes, T.S., Parks, H.L., Briggs, D.A., Causey, J.D., Hatch, S.A., Jenkins, M.C., and Williams, D.J.,  2015 - Egypt-Israel-Jordan Rift, Egypt, Israel, and Jordan-Assessment Tract 002rfCu2001: in   Qualitative assessment of selected areas of the world for undiscovered sediment-hosted stratabound copper deposits U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5090-Y    pp. 41-52, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20105090Y.


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