CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
47 United States (New Mexico) 35.12 N -- 108.06 W Mirabal 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): Mirabal
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in seams in shale replacing wood/as cement in ss
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:shale
conglomerate
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Abo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in seams in shale replacing wood/as cement in ss; significant tonnage of principally acid-soluble copper
References:
Joralemon, I. B., 1952
Age Cannot Wither or Varieties of Geological Experience
Economic Geology, Volume 47, p. 243 - 259

Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Soule, J. H., 1956
Reconnaissance of the "Red Bed" Copper Deposits in Southeastern Colorado and New Mexico
Information Circular, United States Department of The Interior, Bureau of Mines, Publication code 7740, 74 p.


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