CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
68 United States (Arizona) 36.40 N -- 111.23 W White Mesa 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): White Mesa District
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Arizona
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Navajo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; significant tonnage of principally acid-soluble copper
References:
Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

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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