CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
56 United States (New Mexico) 34.30 N -- 106.25 W Scholle District 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): Scholle District
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in grey organic shale and siltstone with sandstone lenses
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-basin-and-range; transtensive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:shale
mudstone (red)
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Abo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey organic shale & siltstone with ss lenses; 33 prospects/to 1957 500 tons of Cu produced; copper occurs as chalcocite/malachite and azurite
References:
Lapoint, D. J., 1979
Geology Geochemistry and Petrology of Sandstone Copper Deposits in New Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 333 p.

Lapoint, D. J., 1989
A Model for the Diagenetic Formation of Sandstone Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Rocks of Permian and Triassic Age, in New Mexico, U.S.A.
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 357 - 70

Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.


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