CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1 United States (Connecticut) 41.55 N -- 072.45.00 W Newgate Prison Cu; Ag
 
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): Newgate Prison
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Connecticut
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in grey sandstone and mudstone in leached zones
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
mudstone (green grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:New Haven Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey sandstone & mudstone in leached zones; ore has been mined from main orebody & 4 small adits north of Newgate; sulphides occur as disseminated specks & clusters of grains
References:
Anonymous, 1977
Minerals and Materials
Report, United States Bureau of Mines

Gray, N. H., 1982
Copper Occurrences in the Hartford Basin of Northern Connecticut
in Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut and South Central Massachusetts : New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 74th Annual Meeting, Storrs Connecticut, Oct. 2-3, 1982, Edited by Joesten, R.; Quarrier, S. S., Guidebook (State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut) , University of Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut , 5, 482 p, p. 195 - 212

Potisat, S., 1978
Copper and Uranium Deposits in the Red Beds of the Connecticut Valley
M. A. Thesis, Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut, 129 p.

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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