CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1270 United States (Virginia) 38.30.00 N -- 078.00 W Culpeper Zn; Cu; Ag; Mo; Pb; Mn
 
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): Culpeper
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Virginia; Nearest community: Stevensburg
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; stratabound zinc, copper and other metallic sulphides in dark-grey to black lacustrine mudstones
Geologic province: Culpeper Riftbasin
Commodities: Zn; Cu; Ag; Mo; Pb; Mn
Geological ages: Early Mesozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) stratabound zinc, copper and other metallic sulphides in dark-grey to black lacustrine mudstones; syclic sequence of lacustrine beds contains four black, calcareous, silty mudstone layers enriched in base and precious metals
References:
Robinson, G. R.; Smoot, J. P., 1989
Stratabound Copper and Zinc Mineralization in Triassic Lacustrine Beds of the Culpeper Basin, Virginia
in USGS Research on Mineral Resources - 1989 Program and Abstracts, Edited by Schindler, K. S., Circular, United States Geological Survey, 1035, 98 p, p. 57 - 59

Ryberg, P. T., 1988
Comparision of Sedimentary Petrologic Sequences Produced in the Mesozoic Extensional and Convergent Tectonic Settings in North America
in Basement Tectonics 8: Characterization and Comparison of Ancient and Mesozoic Continental Margins, Edited by Bartholomew, M. J.; Hyndman, D. W.; Mogk, D. W.; Mason, R., International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Kluwer Acedemic Publishers Inc, 745 p, p. 527 - 533


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