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): |
Leysin |
Political location(s): |
Switzerland |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; sparsely disseminated in marls |
Geologic province: |
Calcareous Alps |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Paleocene (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone (carbonate-bearing)Individual lithologies: | marl |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) sparsely disseminated in marls; non-economic; host rocks contained in Pre-Alpes Medianes Nappe |
References: |
Jaffe, F. C., 1986 |
Switzerland |
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol. 3: Central Europe, Edited by Dunning, F. W.; Evans, A. M., Central Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 3, 355 p, p. 41 - 54 |
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