CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
12 United States (Missouri) 37.44 N -- 091.05 W Lamotte Sandstone 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): Lamotte Sandstone
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Missouri
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; local cu enrichment in upper part of lamotte ss
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Cambrian (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) local Cu enrichment in upper part of Lamotte ss; Cu alone occurs below Pb-Zn-Cu deposits of the Bonneterre formation; represents separate Cu phase mineralization of pre-viburnum trend age
References:
Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

Kisvarsanyi, G., 1977
The Role of the Precambrian Igneous Basement in the Formation of the Stratabound Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposits in Southeast Missouri
Economic Geology, Volume 72, p. 435 - 442


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