CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
7 United States (Pennsylvania) 41.30 N -- 076.07 W Forkston 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): Forkston
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Pennsylvania; Nearest community: Mehoopany (7 mi W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; sulphides replace plant remains in sandstone/shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Catskill Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) sulphides replace plant remains in sandstone/shale; one occurrence-200 yards n of forkston/the 2nd-300 yards s of Forkston; the grey sandstone & shale are intercalated with red strata
References:
Butler, R. D., 1938
A Red Bed Type Copper Occurrence, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Economic Geology, Volume 33, p. 625 - 634

Glaeser, J. D., 1974
Upper Devonian Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environments in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Fourth Series Harrisburg, General Geology Report, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Publication code 63, 64 p.


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