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): |
Rome Sandstone |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Tennessee |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in locally bleached hematitic and/or glauconitic ss |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Cambrian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; quartziteIndividual lithologies: | quartz sandstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Rome Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in locally bleached hematitic &/or glauconitic ss; chalcopyrite bornite and chalcocite(?) are disseminated locally in ss; samples contain > 1% Cu also anomalous Mo and detectable Ag |
References: |
Wedow Jr, H., 1975 |
The Potential for Stratabound Disseminated Copper Deposits in the Cambrian Sandstones of the Appalachian Region |
Economic Geology, Volume 70, p. 252 - 252 |
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