CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
132 United Kingdom (England) 52.45 N -- 002.40 W Grinshill Copper 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): Grinshill Copper
Political location(s): United Kingdom; Province or state: England; Nearest community: Shrewsbury (16 mi NNE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in current bedded grey ss at base of keuper fm
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Helsby Sandstone Formation (Keuper Formation)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in current bedded grey ss at base of Keuper fm; mine worked in various places for several centuries
References:
Bateson, J. H., 1982
Geochemical Reconnaissance in the Cheshire Basin
in Miscellaneous Investigations on Mineralisation in Sedimentary Rocks, Edited by Anonymous, Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report, Institute of Geological Sciences, British Geological Survey, 52, 26 p, p. 1 - 13

Dewey, H., 1925
Copper Ores of Midlands Wales the Lake District and the Isle of Man
Special Report on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Government of Great Britain, Publication code Volume XXX


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