CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
572 Switzerland 47.04 N -- 009.15 E Murtschenalp 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): Murtschenalp
Political location(s): Switzerland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in small concordant lenses within permian sed rks
Geologic province: Calcareous Alps
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:breccia
sandstone
siltstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in small concordant lenses within permian sed rks; 18 showings in area/ in one showing uranium occurs with Cu; possible red bed type/ host rocks part of Helvetic Glarner Nappe
References:
Bachtiger, K., 1963
Die Kupfer- Und Uranmineralisationen Der Murtschenalp (Kt. Glarus, Schweiz)
Beitrage Zur Geologie Der Schweiz, Geotechnische Serie, Lieferung, Volume 38, p. 113 - 113

Jaffe, F. C., 1986
Switzerland
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. 41 - 54


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