Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Sedgwick County Occurrences |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Kansas |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; in grey shale with minor dolomite and limestone |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Permian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonateIndividual lithologies: | shale (grey) limestone dolomite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Summer Group-Ninnescah Shale, Wellington Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey shale with minor dolomite & limestone; chalco & bornite occur primarily as replacements of diagenetic pyrite |
References: |
Hill, Jr., W. E., 1967 |
Copper in Redbeds of South-Central Kansas |
in Short Papers on Research in 1966, Edited by Zeller, D. E., Bulletin, State Geological Survey of Kansas, 187-1, 19 p, p. 13 - 14 |
Ripley, E. M., 1980 |
Mineralogy and Paragenesis of Red-Bed Copper Mineralization in the Lower Permian of South Central Kansas |
Economic Geology, Volume 75, p. 722 - 729 |
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