CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
291 Slovenia 46.05 N -- 014.15 E Skofje Cu; Ag; Pb; Zn; As
 
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): Skofje
Political location(s): Slovenia; Nearest community: Ljubljana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; as detrital grains/ coatings/fillings in sed rocks
Geologic province: Panonien Basin
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Pb; Zn; As
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
siltstone (grey and green)
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Val Gardena Sequence, Groden Beds
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as detrital grains/ coatings/fillings in sed rocks; 1 deposit-produced a small amount of Cu and 12 occurrences in one area; ore beds alternate with red coloured barren ones/ associated with coal
References:
Drovenik, M., 1980
Copper Deposits in the Permian Sandstone of Yugoslavia
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. 261 - 264

Drovenik, M., 1983
Mineral Deposits in Permian and Triassic Beds of Slovenia (Yugoslavia)
in Mineral Deposits of the Alps and of the Alpine Epoch in Europe, Edited by Schneider, H. -J., Proceedings of 4th Ismida Oct 4-10/81, Special Publication of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Springer-Verlag, 3, 402 p, p. 88 - 96

Holl, R., 1976
The Strata-Bound Ore Deposits in the Eastern Alps
1, 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. 1 - 36


Generated 2015-01-27 17:17:50 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
GlobalDB System, Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada