Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Blue Star |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Subprovince or locality: Valencia County |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; chalcocite, digenite and covellite; chalcocite occurs as nodules, replacements of woody debris and as replacements in limestone |
Geologic province: |
Scholle District |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Permian (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, digenite and covellite; chalcocite occurs as nodules, replacements of woody debris and as replacements in limestone; within nonred units in the lower part of Abo formation above the basal redbed of pebble and cobble conglomerate |
References: |
Lapoint, D. J., 1989 |
A Model for the Diagenetic Formation of Sandstone Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Rocks of Permian and Triassic Age, in New Mexico, U.S.A. |
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 357 - 70 |
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