CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
380 United Kingdom (Scotland) 58.51 N -- 002.56 W Orkney Islands Cu; Pb; Zn; Ag
 
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): Orkney Islands
Political location(s): United Kingdom; Province or state: Scotland; Nearest community: Burray Island
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in bituminous and dolomitic siltstone and shale
Geologic province: Orcadian Basin
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn; Ag
Geological ages: Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Internal host rock structures:stromatolites
Individual lithologies:siltstone (dolomitic)
mudstone (dolomitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Middle Old Red Sandstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in bituminous & dolomitic siltstone & shale; 4 occurrences: Burray Island, Rousay Island, 2 on Orkney mainland; sulphide deposition occured during dolomitization of stromatolites
References:
Muir, R. O., 1975
Sulphide Mineralization of the Continental Devonian Sediments of Orkney (Scotland)
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 10, p. 205 - 215


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