CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
566 Poland 50.33.15 N -- 016.30.00 E Okrzeszyn 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): Okrzeszyn
Political location(s): Poland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; as concretions or incrustations in shales
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone (carbonaceous)
Individual lithologies:shale (anthracitic)
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Rotliegendes Sequence

(2) sedimentary; coal
Individual lithologies:anthracite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as concretions or incrustations in shales; uneconomic-considerable variability in ore thickness and Cu content; shales from o.18 to 1 m thick; Cu content 0.1 to 2.25%; often bituminous
References:
Osika, R., 1986
Poland
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol. 3: Central Europe, Edited by Dunning, F. W.; Evans, A. M., Central Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 3, 355 p, p. 55 - 73


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