CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
127 Sweden 58.33 N -- 015.15 E Ostergotland Cu; Co; U; Ni; Mo; V
 
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): Ostergotland
Political location(s): Sweden; Nearest community: Borensberg
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in alum shales
Commodities: Cu; Co; U; Ni; Mo; V
Geological ages: Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale (alum)
Host rock stratigraphy:Peltura Zone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in alum shales; several occurrences indicated by borings through the alum shale beds; shales have 1-5% of concretion-like hydrocarbons called kolm
References:
Anonymous, 1977
Plans for Swedish Alum Shale Mining
Mining Magazine, December issue, p. 603

Bain, G. W., 1960
Patterns to Ores in Layered Rocks
Economic Geology, Volume 55, p. 695 - 731


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