CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
24 United States (Oklahoma) 35.00 N -- 097.30 W Byars Cu; Ag
 
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): Byars
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Oklahoma; Nearest community: Byars (5 mi SW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstone
Geologic district: Paoli District
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (red)
shale (locally belached white)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; 190 tons of copper ore shipped between 1913-1914/also worked 1897-98
References:
Lapoint, D. J., 1979
Geology Geochemistry and Petrology of Sandstone Copper Deposits in New Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 333 p.

Merritt, C. A., 1940
Copper in the Red Beds of Oklahoma
Mineral Report No. 8, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Publication code 8, 19 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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