CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
240 China (Sichuan) 30.00 N -- 103.00 E Chienchupa 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): Chienchupa
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Sichuan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; as nodules in sandy shale replacing charred wood
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale (sandy - greyish-black)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as nodules in sandy shale replacing charred wood; copper ore found near Chienchupa about 10 km north of Yungching City; deposited in shallow water bordering oldland covered by permian basalt
References:
Chu, H. J., 1935
The Copper Deposits of China
in Copper Resources of the World, Edited by Anonymous, 16th International Geological Congress, Washington D C, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 855 p, p. 663 - 680


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