CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
19 United States (Kansas) 37.15.30 N -- 097.41 W Milan 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): 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-carbonate
External 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
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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