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Record 1 2005-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copper Mining
  • Petrography
DEF

A dark-colored shale worked for copper in Germany.

CONT

The European Kupferschiefer ... is probably the world's best known copper-rich shale. It is of late Permian age and has been mined at Mansfeld (East Germany) for almost 1000 years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines de cuivre
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les Kupferschiefer constituent des minéralisations associées à la transgression permienne au contact entre les grès du Rotliegendes et les évaporites et carbonates du Zechstein.

CONT

Les «Kupferschiefer» [sont des] schistes bitumineux avec concentrations locales de cuivre («Kupfer»).

OBS

Kupferschiefer : Mot emprunté à l'allemand et se traduisant littéralement par «schistes à cuivre».

Spanish

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