CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
492 United Kingdom (Scotland) 55.53 N -- 004.42 W Larkfield (Gourock) 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): Larkfield (Gourock)
Political location(s): United Kingdom; Province or state: Scotland; Nearest community: Drumshantie (1 km ESE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in grey sandstone with pebbly bands and plant debris
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey calcareous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Clyde Sandstone Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey sandstone with pebbly bands & plant debris; small opencast workings long-abandoned by 1873; Cu occurs as segregations & thin veins of malachite & grey oxide of cu
References:
Stephenson, D., 1983
Baryte and Copper Mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, Central Scotland
in Mineral Reconnaissance Programme, Edited by Stephenson, D.; Coats, J. S., Report, Institute of Geological Sciences, Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain), 67, 31 p, p. 15


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