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): |
Ebro |
Political location(s): |
Spain; Province or state: Tarragona |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated |
Deposit status: |
Status comments: copper mineralization occurs in paleochannels within host rocks where plant fragments are abundant |
Geologic province: |
South Pyrenean Foreland Basin |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Mineralization styles: |
stratabound |
Geological ages: |
Tertiary (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstoneHost rock stratigraphy: | Campodarbe and Uncastillo Formations |
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Mineralogy: |
(mineralization): chalcopyrite, bornite |
References: |
Subias, I.; Fanlo, I.; Garcia-Veigas, J., 2001 |
Sandstone-hosted stratabound copper deposits fo the south Pyrenean foreland basin |
in Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Edited by Piestrzynski, A., Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial SGA Meeting, SGA, Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers Lisse, 6, p. 243 - 246 |
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