CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
69 United States (Colorado) 38.25.50 N -- 108.49.15 W Adak; Uravan U; V; 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): Adak; Uravan
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Colorado
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in upper sandstone of the salt wash member
Commodities: U; V; Cu
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Internal host rock structures:interbedding
Individual lithologies:sandstone
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Morrison Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in upper sandstone of the salt wash member; deposit in braided alluvial fan in 2nd order basin over paradox salt
References:
Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Young, R. G., 1978
Depositional Systems and Dispersal Patterns in Uraniferous Sandstones of the Colorado Plateau, Utah
Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Volume 61, p. 843 - 843


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