Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
East Orange; Dods |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: New Jersey |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; thinly scattered in veins and fractures in sandstone |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Triassic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrineIndividual lithologies: | sandstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Newark Supergroup |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) thinly scattered in veins & fractures in sandstone; mined in the 1700s |
References: |
Ryberg, P. T., 1988 |
Comparision of Sedimentary Petrologic Sequences Produced in the Mesozoic Extensional and Convergent Tectonic Settings in North America |
in Basement Tectonics 8: Characterization and Comparison of Ancient and Mesozoic Continental Margins, Edited by Bartholomew, M. J.; Hyndman, D. W.; Mogk, D. W.; Mason, R., International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Kluwer Acedemic Publishers Inc, 745 p, p. 527 - 533 |
Woodward, H. P., 1944 |
Copper Mines and Mining in New Jersey |
Geologic Series - Bulletin, Department of Conservation and Development, State of New Jersey, Publication code 57 |
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