CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
343 United Kingdom (Scotland) 55.56 N -- 004.47 W Drumshantie (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): Drumshantie (Gourock)
Political location(s): United Kingdom; Province or state: Scotland; Nearest community: Gourock (1 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated in well-bedded quartzose sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (quartzose - pink and white)
Host rock stratigraphy:Clyde Sandstone Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in well-bedded quartzose sandstone; opencast workings before 1810/shaft sunk 20m 1873/mine worked to 1875; malachite associated with carbonized plant remains/also bornite
References:
Allen, P. M., 1980
Copper Mineralisation in Great Britain
in European Copper Deposits : Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Bor, Yugoslavia, September 18- 22, 1979, Edited by Jankovic, S.; Sillitoe, R. H., Special Publication, Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 60, Department of Economic Geology, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Belgrade University, 1, 300 p, p. 266 - 276

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

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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