CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1023 United States (Utah) 38.08.35 N -- 109.08.30 W Kayenta 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): Kayenta
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Utah; Subprovince or locality: Lisbon Valley - SW side
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; malachite, minor azurite and native copper disseminated in sandstone
Geologic province: Lisbon Valley
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Triassic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) malachite, minor azurite and native copper disseminated in sandstone; copper minerals occur along the strike of beds for about 30 m.
References:
Weir, G. W.; Puffett, W. P., 1981
Stratigraphy and Structural Geology and Uranium-Vanadium and Copper Deposits of Lisbon Valley Area, Utah-Colorado
Open File, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 81-39, 306 p.


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