CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
21 United States (Kansas) 37.40 N -- 097.40 W Sedgwick County Occurrences 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): Sedgwick County Occurrences
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Kansas
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in grey shale with minor dolomite and limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:shale (grey)
limestone
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Summer Group-Ninnescah Shale, Wellington Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey shale with minor dolomite & limestone; chalco & bornite occur primarily as replacements of diagenetic pyrite
References:
Hill, Jr., W. E., 1967
Copper in Redbeds of South-Central Kansas
in Short Papers on Research in 1966, Edited by Zeller, D. E., Bulletin, State Geological Survey of Kansas, 187-1, 19 p, p. 13 - 14

Ripley, E. M., 1980
Mineralogy and Paragenesis of Red-Bed Copper Mineralization in the Lower Permian of South Central Kansas
Economic Geology, Volume 75, p. 722 - 729


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