CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
342 United Kingdom (Scotland) 56.03.48 N -- 003.13.30 W Firth of Forth 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): Firth of Forth
Political location(s): United Kingdom; Province or state: Scotland; Nearest community: Burnt Island
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in non-marine algal (stromatolitic) limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Mississippian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Oil Shale Group, Burdiehouse Limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in non-marine algal (stromatolitic) limestone; two coastal exposures of low-grade sulphides of limited extent; oil shale gp rocks interpreted as fluviodeltaic deposits
References:
Parnell, J., 1983
Stromatolite-Hosted Mineralization in the Oil Shale Group, Scotland
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 92, p. B98 - B99


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