CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
37 United States (Texas) 34.05 N -- 099.50 W Mcclellan 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): Mcclellan
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Texas; Nearest community: Teacup Mountain
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; associated with lenticular sandstone beds
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding (sandstone horizons)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone
External host rock forms:sandstone horizons
Individual lithologies:dolomite
mudstone
mudstone
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:San Angelo Formation, Pease River Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) associated with lenticular sandstone beds; from 1877-1917/ 1943-45/ 1967-70 about 250 tons of ore was mined; an upper Cu zone occurs 50 ft above lower zone in shale & gypsum beds
References:
Smith, G. E., 1974
Depositional Systems, San Angelo Fm (Permian), North Texas - Facies Control of Red-Bed Copper Mineralization
Report of Investigations, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Publication code 80, 74 p.

Stroud, R. B., 1970
Production Potential of Copper Deposits Associated with Permian Red Bed Formations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas
Bureau of Mines RI, United States Department of The Interior, Publication code 7422


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