CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
30 United States (Texas) 33.30 N -- 099.45 W Alexander Ranch 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): Alexander Ranch
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Texas; Nearest community: Truscott (8 mi W)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed
Individual lithologies:sandstone (oxidized)
mudstone (oxidized)
Host rock stratigraphy:San Angelo Formation, Pease River Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; in clastic fluvial/deltaic deposits associated with organic trash
References:
Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.


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