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 Queen |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Utah; Nearest community: Lisbon Creek mouth (1.6 km NW) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; malachite and azurite disseminated in micaceous sandstone |
Geologic province: |
Lisbon Valley |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Pennsylvanian (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) malachite and azurite disseminated in micaceous sandstone; nodules of malachite and azurite as much as 2.5 cm. in diameter, some having sulphide cores; surface trace of Lisbon Valley fault is few tens of feet east of the prospect |
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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