CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
311 Slovak Republic 48.34 N -- 020.18 E Sankovce 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): Sankovce
Political location(s): Slovak Republic
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in hematite orebodies/ in anhydrite-gypsum bodies
Geologic province: Gemeride Zone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Permian - Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:schist (marly)

(2) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone

(3) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:anhydrite
gypsum
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in hematite orebodies/ in anhydrite-gypsum bodies; 2 horizons of Cu occ: hematite occ-Triassic, anhydrite & gypsum-Permian; deposits occur at top of evaporitic sequence more than 1000 m thick
References:
Ilavsky, J., 1976
Stratiform Copper Deposits of the Western Carpathians, Czechoslovakia
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 423 - 432


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