CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
286 Germany 50.59 N -- 009.54 E Richelsdorf Cu
 
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): Richelsdorf
Political location(s): Germany
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in the kupferschiefer (bituminous marl)
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:marl (clayey)
conglomerate
sandstone
siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Grauliegende and Kupferschiefer Beds, Zechstein1
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in the kupferschiefer (bituminous marl); deposit occurs 40 km southeast of Kassel between Sontra and Bebra; mines closed down after 1950
References:
Jowett, E.C., 1989
Effects of Continental Rifting on the Location and Genesis of Stratiform Copper-silver Deposits
Section Introduction, General Principles and Geochemical Aspects, in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 53 - 66

Jung, W.; Knitzschke, G., 1976
Kupferschiefer in German Democratic Republic (GDR) with Special Reference to Kupferschiefer Deposit in Southeastern Harz Forland
7, in Handbook of Stratabound and Stratiform Ore Deposits, Edited by Wolf, K. H., Volume 6: Cu, Zn, Pb and Ag Deposits, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, New York, 585 p, p. 353 - 406

Krebs, W., 1976
Geology of European Stratabound Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposits
in Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary-April 7/8/9 1976, Edited by Anonymous, Seminar, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, p. 103 - 124

Rentzsch, J., 1974
The Kupferschiefer in Comparison with the Deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 395 - 418

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

Production data: Report period: from 1939 until 1954; 2,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.765 percent
Ag: 3.5 grams/metric ton
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1902; 40,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: total possible in situ reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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