CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
571 Switzerland 46.21 N -- 007.01 E Leysin 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): Leysin
Political location(s): Switzerland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; sparsely disseminated in marls
Geologic province: Calcareous Alps
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Paleocene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone (carbonate-bearing)
Individual lithologies:marl
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) sparsely disseminated in marls; non-economic; host rocks contained in Pre-Alpes Medianes Nappe
References:
Jaffe, F. C., 1986
Switzerland
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. 41 - 54


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