CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
290 Germany 51.35 N -- 014.22 E Spremberg 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): Spremberg
Political location(s): Germany; Nearest community: Spremberg
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in coaly bituminous claystone (marl)
Geologic province: Harz Foreland
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:marl (clayey)
conglomerate
sandstone
siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Kupferschiefer Bed, Zechstein 1 Sequence
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in coaly bituminous claystone (marl); deposit associated with Mulkwitz structure at Spremberg; clayey marl is fine-gr/ finely laminated/ contains carbonaceous matter
References:
Jung, W.; Knitzschke, G., 1976
Kupferschiefer in German Democratic Republic (GDR) with Special Reference to Kupferschiefer Deposit in Southeastern Harz Forland
7, in Handbook of Stratabound and Stratiform Ore Deposits, Edited by Wolf, K. H., Volume 6: Cu, Zn, Pb and Ag Deposits, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, New York, 585 p, p. 353 - 406

Krebs, W., 1976
Geology of European Stratabound Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposits
in Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary-April 7/8/9 1976, Edited by Anonymous, Seminar, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, p. 103 - 124

Rentzsch, J., 1974
The Kupferschiefer in Comparison with the Deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 395 - 418


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