CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
128 Sweden 58.59.30 N -- 012.30 E Stora Strand 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): Stora Strand
Political location(s): Sweden
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; stratabound cu in phyllitic mica-chlorite-schist
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; schist; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Individual lithologies:schist (phyllite - chlorite)
Host rock stratigraphy:Dalsland Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) stratabound Cu in phyllitic mica-chlorite-schist; deposit has many features in common with the mansfield ores; up to 1% Cu in schist max width 1 metre/ horizon followed about 20 km
References:
Frietsch, R., 1975
Brief Outline of the Metallic Mineral Resources of Sweden
C, Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning, Publication code 720, 64 p.

Frietsch, R., 1980
Metallogeny of the Copper Deposits of Sweden
in European Copper Deposits : Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Bor, Yugoslavia, September 18- 22, 1979, Edited by Jankovic, S.; Sillitoe, R. H., Special Publication, Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 60, Department of Economic Geology, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Belgrade University, 1, 300 p, p. 166 - 179

Grip, E., 1978
Sweden
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Volume 1: Northwest Europe, Edited by Bowie, S.; Kvalheims, A.; Haslam, H., Northwest Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 1, 362 p, p. 93 - 111


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