ABSTRACT
The prospects of the Jabal Dhaylan district, along the northern Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia, are examples of salt-related, carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb deposits, comparable with those of the Maghreb, North Africa, and the U.S. Gulf Coast salt dome provinces. The Jabal Dhaylan deposits probably formed by aquifer mixing between a hot, metalliferous brine that employed sandstone permeability, and a warm, evaporite brine that moved along growth faults and related fractures in this purely extension, early passive margin, sedimentary-tectonic setting.
