CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
143 Ireland 51.53.30 N -- 009.57.30 W Wild Goat 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): Wild Goat
Political location(s): Ireland; Nearest community: Deriana Lough (0.75 mi E)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; dissem in grey arkosic med grained cross-bedded ss
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Internal host rock structures:crossbedding
Individual lithologies:sandstone (arkosic grey)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in grey arkosic med grained cross-bedded ss; sandstone approx 75 ft thick/ underlain & overlain by shaley mudstone; mineralization is malachite
References:
Anonymous, 1971
Grassroots Reconnaissance
Unpublished Company Report

Snodin, S. R., 1971
The Nature and Origin of Copper Rich Sedimentary Rocks in South West Cork, Ireland
in The Genesis of Base Metal Deposits in Ireland: Abstracts of Papers presented at the IGS Symposium, Galway, 1971, Edited by Skevington, D., Abstracts, International Association of Geodesy, Irish Geological Association, American Geological Institute, 27 p, p. 9 - 12

Snodin, S. R., 1971
Copper Beds in Southern Ireland
Ph.D. Thesis, Leicester University


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