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): |
Lamotte Sandstone |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Missouri |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; local cu enrichment in upper part of lamotte ss |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Cambrian (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) local Cu enrichment in upper part of Lamotte ss; Cu alone occurs below Pb-Zn-Cu deposits of the Bonneterre formation; represents separate Cu phase mineralization of pre-viburnum trend age |
References: |
Kinkle, A. R., 1962 |
Copper in the United States |
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13 |
Kisvarsanyi, G., 1977 |
The Role of the Precambrian Igneous Basement in the Formation of the Stratabound Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposits in Southeast Missouri |
Economic Geology, Volume 72, p. 435 - 442 |
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