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): |
Okrzeszyn |
Political location(s): |
Poland |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; as concretions or incrustations in shales |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Permian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone (carbonaceous)Individual lithologies: | shale (anthracitic) sandstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Rotliegendes Sequence |
(2) sedimentary; coalIndividual lithologies: | anthracite |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as concretions or incrustations in shales; uneconomic-considerable variability in ore thickness and Cu content; shales from o.18 to 1 m thick; Cu content 0.1 to 2.25%; often bituminous |
References: |
Osika, R., 1986 |
Poland |
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol. 3: Central Europe, Edited by Dunning, F. W.; Evans, A. M., Central Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 3, 355 p, p. 55 - 73 |
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