CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
41 United States (Texas) 33.05 N -- 100.10 W Wiley 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): Wiley Ranch
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Texas; Nearest community: Valley of Double Mountain
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in base of blaine formation
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding (evaporite cap ?)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:dolomite
mudstone
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Blaine Formation, Pease River Group

(2) sedimentary; evaporite
External host rock forms:bed(s)
Individual lithologies:gypsum
Host rock stratigraphy:Blaine Formation, Pease River Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in base of blaine formation; exhibits features common to channel and scour deposits; at least two separate copper-bearing horizons are known
References:
Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Stroud, R. B., 1970
Production Potential of Copper Deposits Associated with Permian Red Bed Formations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas
Bureau of Mines RI, United States Department of The Interior, Publication code 7422


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