CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
44 United States (New Mexico) 36.06 N -- 105.10 W Coyote Creek; Guadalupita (?) 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): Coyote Creek; Guadalupita (?)
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in carbonaceous shales and arkosic sandstones
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Pennsylvanian - Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:arkose
sandstone (arkosic)
shale (red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Sangre de Cristo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in carbonaceous shales and arkosic sandstones
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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