CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
289 Germany 51.36 N -- 011.28 E Mansfeld - Sangerhausen 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): Mansfeld - Sangerhausen
Political location(s): Germany; Nearest community: Mansfeld
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in zechstein sequence-conglom/ ss/ marl/ ls/ salt
Geologic province: Harz Foreland
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
sandstone
marl (carbonaceous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Kupferschiefer Bed, Zechstein 1 Sequence
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in zechstein sequence-conglom/ ss/ marl/ ls/ salt; many small mines/ syngenetic deposits in anoxic bottom waters of k sea; vertical zoning in decreasing sulphide solubility
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

Nicolini, P., 1962
How Sedimentological Data can be Used in Search for Stratiform Mineral Deposits: Drafting of Provisional Curves
Chronique de la Recherche Miniere, Volume 309, p. 155 - 167

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

Trask, P. D., 1925
The Origin of the Ore of the Mansfeld Kupferschiefer, Germany: a Review of the Current Literature
Economic Geology, Volume 20, p. 746 - 761

Wedepohl, K. H., 1964
Kupferschiefer and the Problems of Syngenetic Ore Deposition
Section Economic Geology: Geochemistry in Economic Geology, in Program for Annual Geological Society of America Meeting, Miami Beach, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts, Geological Society of America, 286 p, p. 219 - 220

Wedepohl, K. H., 1971
Kupferschiefer as a Prototype of Syngenetic Sedimentary Ore Deposits
in Papers and Proceedings of the Seventh General IMA-IAGOD Meeting, Tokyo-Kyoto, 27 August-2 September, 1970, Edited by Takeuchi, Y.; Tatsumi, T.; Takenouchi, S.; Miyazawa, T.; Kanehira, K.; Sekine, Y.; Kato, A.; Fuji, T.; Isihara, S., Special Issue, Society of Mining Geologists of Japan, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), Mining Geology, 3, 500 p, p. 268 - 273

Production data: Report period: from 1210 until 1981; 1,500,000 metric ton metal; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 100 percent
Zn: 1.8 percent
Reference: Gustafson, L. B.; Williams, N., 1981: Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Deposits of Copper, Lead, and Zinc; in Economic Geology, 75th Anniversary Volume (1905-1980), Edited by Skinner, B. J., Economic Geology and the Society of Economic Geologists, 964 p, p. 139 - 178
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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75,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Reference: 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
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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