CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1122 United States (New Mexico) 32.50.00 N -- 105.45 W Ady Cu; Pb
 
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): Ady
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Nearest community: Alamogordo
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; galena is a major sulphide; mixed mineralization of chalcocite, digenite, and covellite; chalcocite occurs as nodules, replacements of woody debris and replacements in limestone
Geologic province: High Rolls District
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin; stable (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing)
Host rock stratigraphy:Abo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) galena a major sulphide; mixed mineralization of chalcocite, digenite & covellite; chalcocite as nodules, replacements of woody debris & replacements in limestone; in nonred units in lower part of Abo fm above basal red conglomerate; Pb only in arkosic ss
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


Generated 2015-01-27 17:18:26 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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