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): |
Copper Hill |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Subprovince or locality: Taos County; Nearest community: Copper Hill |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; quartz vein-hosted cu minerals; disseminated cu minerals in quartzite; and oxidized cu minerals in fractures |
Geologic province: |
Picuris Range |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag; Sb |
Geological ages: |
Paleoproterozoic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental marginal arc (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine; Metamorphic grade: amphiboliteHost rock stratigraphy: | Ortega and Rinconada Formations |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) quartz vein-hosted Cu minls; disseminated Cu minls in quartzite; oxidized Cu minls in fractures; fract-controlled & disseminated Cu-Ag-Sb minerals in qtz veins & quartzite near veins; deposit near contact betw.massive orthoquartzite and overlying schists |
References: |
Williams, M. L.; Bauer, P. W., 1995 |
The Copper Hill Cu-Ag-Sb Deposit, Picuris Range, New Mexico: Retrograde Mineralization In a Brittle-Ductile Trap |
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1994 - 2005 |
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