CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
26 United States (Oklahoma) 36.45 N -- 097.50 W Grant County 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): Grant County
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Oklahoma
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; within thin beds of upper shale member
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Wellington Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) within thin beds of upper shale member; up to 4 Cu zones occur in 250-320 ft interval in upper most part of fm; mineralized beds occur in shallow subsurface/ upper shale member
References:
Cox, R., 1980
Stratabound Copper in Lower Permian Red Beds North-Central Oklahoma
Oklahoma Geology Notes, Volume 40, p. 191 - 192

Lur'ye, A. M., 1986
Formation Conditions of Copper-Sandstone and Copper-Shale Deposits
in Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits, Edited by Friedrich, G. H.; Genkin, A. D.; Naldrett, A. J.; Ridge, J. D.; Sillitoe, R. H.; Vokes, F. M., Proceedings of 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow 1984, Springer-Verlag, 592 p, p. 477 - 491


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