CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
587 France (Haute-savoie) 46.15 N -- 006.39 E Le Biot 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): Le Biot
Political location(s): France; Province or state: Haute-savoie; Subprovince or locality: Lebiot - Corbier Pass
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in slightly siliceous limestone
Geologic province: Prealpes Chablais
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Paleocene (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:limestone
marl (red)
sandstone (calcareous - marly)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in slightly siliceous limestone; thin limestone bed(several cms) lies in middle of thicker red marl bed; limestone formed from accumulation of foraminifera
References:
Martini, J., 1971
Un Horizon a Mineralisations Cupriferes dans les Prealpes Medianes Romandes et Chablaisiennes (Alpes Occidentales)
Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Ge, Volume 6, p. 33 - 46


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