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): |
Milan |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Kansas; Nearest community: Milan (2 mi S) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; botryoidal malachite in vuggy argillaceous dolomite |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Permian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonateExternal host rock forms: | thin beds | Internal host rock structures: | thin beds | Individual lithologies: | dolomite shale (green and red) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Milan Limestone Member, Wellington Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) botryoidal malachite in vuggy argillaceous dolomit; mineralization occurs at 4 distinct stratigraphic levels; Milan dolomite caps thick sequence of Wellington fm evaporites |
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 |
Long, D. T., 1976 |
Occurrence of Copper Sulfides in the (Permian Age) Milan Dolomite, South-Central Kansas |
Economic Geology, Volume 71, p. 656 - 671 |
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