CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
554 Germany 51.05 N -- 008.52 E Geismar 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): Geismar
Political location(s): Germany
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; seam of grey calcareous clays with plant remains
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Late Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone (carbonate-bearing)
Individual lithologies:marl (clayey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Kupferschiefer Bed, Zechstein 2 Sequence

(2) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:gypsum
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) seam of grey calcareous clays with plant remains; Cu seam 1-2 m thick mined from 1590-1818 & for short time post 1850; ore averaged 1% Cu and 11 ppm Ag
References:
Walther, H. W., 1986
Federal Republic of Germany
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol. 3: Central Europe, Edited by Dunning, F. W.; Evans, A. M., Central Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 3, 355 p, p. 175 - 301


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