CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
50 United States (New Mexico) 36.55 N -- 103.26 W Peacock Canyon Cu; Ag
 
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): Peacock Canyon
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; assoc with steep faults in flat-lying sandstone
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Dockum Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) assoc with steep faults in flat-lying sandstone; several claim groups/Cu also occurs as disseminations in adjoining ss; ss bleached from red to nearly white in areas of Cu mineralization
References:
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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