CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1033 United States (New Mexico) 36.30.00 N -- 105.30 W Champion 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): Champion
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Subprovince or locality: Taos County; Nearest community: Taos (32 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; malachite and chrysocolla occur in fractures and as disseminations along bedding planes within the ortega quartzite
Geologic province: Picuris Range
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) malachite and chrysocolla occur in fractures and as disseminations along bedding planes within the Ortega quartzite
References:
Summo Minerals Corporation, 1995
Summo Minerals Corporation, Company Report
Company Report, Summo Mineral Corporation

Williams, M. L.; Bauer, P. W., 1995
The Copper Hill Cu-Ag-Sb Deposit, Picuris Range, New Mexico: Retrograde Mineralization In a Brittle-Ductile Trap
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1994 - 2005

Resource data:
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18,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.4 percent
Reference: Summo Minerals Corporation, 1995: Summo Mineral Corporation Report; Unpublished Company Report
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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