CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
20 United States (Kansas) 37.20 N -- 097.56 W Runnymede 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): Runnymede
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Kansas; Nearest community: Runnymede (1.5 mi E)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; thin films on bedding planes in dolomite and shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-siltstone
Individual lithologies:dolomite (argillaceous)
shale
siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Ninnescah Shale Formation, Summer Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) thin films on bedding planes in dolomite & shale; associated with argillaceous dolomite beds & adjacent shale; Cu in upper part of Ninnescah shale fm including Runnymede ss member
References:
Hill, Jr., W. E., 1967
Copper in Redbeds of South-Central Kansas
in Short Papers on Research in 1966, Edited by Zeller, D. E., Bulletin, State Geological Survey of Kansas, 187-1, 19 p, p. 13 - 14

Waugh, T. C., 1976
Copper Occurrences Associated with Permian Rocks in South-Central Kansas
in Stratiform Copper Deposits of the Midcontinent Region, A Symposium held March 7-8, 1974, in Norman, Oklahoma, Edited by Al-Shaieb, Z.; Johnson, K. S., 8th Annual Meeting of the South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular, Oklahoma Geological Survey, 77, 99 p, p. 76 - 79


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