CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
288 Germany 54.09 N -- 007.52 E Helgoland Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Helgoland
Political location(s): Germany; Subprovince or locality: North Sea island
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; vuglike inclusions and impregnations in sandstones
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (argillaceous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Middle Bunter
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) vuglike inclusions & impregnations in sandstones; brick-red ss discoloured to grey-green where Cu mineralizations occurs; ss beds of the Roet (upper stage of lower Trias) have calcareous cement
References:
Schreiter, R., 1932
Copper Ores in Lower Triassic Red Beds of Heloland
Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 84, p. 1 - 17

Walther, H. W., 1986
Federal Republic of Germany
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol. 3: Central Europe, Edited by Dunning, F. W.; Evans, A. M., Central Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 3, 355 p, p. 175 - 301


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