CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
11 United States (Tennessee) 35.00 N -- 084.30 W Rome Sandstone 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): Rome Sandstone
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Tennessee
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in locally bleached hematitic and/or glauconitic ss
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:quartz sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Rome Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in locally bleached hematitic &/or glauconitic ss; chalcopyrite bornite and chalcocite(?) are disseminated locally in ss; samples contain > 1% Cu also anomalous Mo and detectable Ag
References:
Wedow Jr, H., 1975
The Potential for Stratabound Disseminated Copper Deposits in the Cambrian Sandstones of the Appalachian Region
Economic Geology, Volume 70, p. 252 - 252


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