Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Pingel Dal Beds; Kap Biot - Carlsberg Fjord |
Political location(s): |
Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in silty mudstone/ sandstone/ dolomitic mudstone |
Geologic province: |
Caledonian Fold Belt |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Triassic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstoneInternal host rock structures: | cyclic bedding | Individual lithologies: | sandstone (variegated) mudstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Edderfugledal Member, Fleming Fjord Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in silty mudstone/ sandstone/ dolomitic mudstone; Cu over 1000 square km area from kap biot to head of Carlsberg Fjord; ore minerals mainly in coarse-grained laminae/ stratiform/disseminated |
References: |
Clemmensen, L. B., 1980 |
Triassic Rift Sedimentation and Palaeogeography of Central East Greenland |
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 136, 72 p. |
Nielsen, B. L., 1973 |
A Survey of the Economic Geology of Greenland (Exclusive of Fossil Fuels) |
Rapport, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 56, 45 p. |
Stendal, H., 1979 |
Geochemical Copper Prospecting by Use of Inorganic Drainage Sediment Sampling in Central East Greenland |
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 88, p. B1 - B4 |
Thomassen, B., 1982 |
Stratabound Copper-Lead-Zinc Mineralisation in the Permo-Triassic of Central East Greenland |
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 143, 42 p. |
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