CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
51 United States (New Mexico) 34.56 N -- 104.52 W Pintada 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): Pintada
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone replacing v fine-gr organic material
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin; stable (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; evaporite; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine
Individual lithologies:gypsum
Host rock stratigraphy:Grayburg-Queen Formation

(2) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Grayburg-Queen Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone replacing v fine-gr organic material; mineralization occurs in five separate beds each 5 to 9 feet thick
References:
Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

Lapoint, D. J., 1979
Geology Geochemistry and Petrology of Sandstone Copper Deposits in New Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 333 p.

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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