CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1117 United States (New Mexico) 34.30.00 N -- 106.25 W Blue Star 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): Blue Star
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Subprovince or locality: Valencia County
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite, digenite and covellite; chalcocite occurs as nodules, replacements of woody debris and as replacements in limestone
Geologic province: Scholle District
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite, digenite and covellite; chalcocite occurs as nodules, replacements of woody debris and as replacements in limestone; within nonred units in the lower part of Abo formation above the basal redbed of pebble and cobble conglomerate
References:
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


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