CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
130 United Kingdom (England) 53.18 N -- 002.15 W Alderly Edge 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): Alderly Edge
Political location(s): United Kingdom; Province or state: England; Nearest community: Alderly Edge Station (1 mi SSE)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; cu carbonate as cement in sandstone
Geologic province: Cheshire Basin
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:sandstone
conglomerate (conglomeratic sandstone)
Host rock stratigraphy:Helsby Sandstone Formation (Keuper Formation)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) cu carbonate as cement in sandstone; Kupferschiefer type/ 3 mines: West, Wood, & Engine Mines; beds dip sw 15-22 degrees
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

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

Davidson, C. F., 1965
A Possible Mode of Origin of Strata-Bound Copper Ores
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 942 - 954

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

Dunham, K., 1978
United Kingdom
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Volume 1: Northwest Europe, Edited by Bowie, S.; Kvalheims, A.; Haslam, H., Northwest Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 1, 362 p, p. 263 - 31

Ixer, R. A., 1982
The Primary Ore Mineralogy of the Alderly Edge Deposit, Cheshire
Mineralogical Magazine, Volume 46, p. 485 - 492

Production data: Report period: from 1857 until 1877; 152,651.1 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.1 percent
Reference: Dewey; Eastwood, 1925: Special Reports; Volume, Publication code XXX
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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