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): |
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-carbonateIndividual lithologies: | dolomite mudstone shale | Host rock stratigraphy: | Blaine Formation, Pease River Group |
(2) sedimentary; evaporiteExternal host rock forms: | bed(s) | Individual lithologies: | gypsum | Host rock stratigraphy: | Blaine Formation, Pease River Group |
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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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