CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
40 United States (Texas) 33.33 N -- 099.59 W Smelter 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): Smelter
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Texas
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in dark-red sandstone/siltstone/mudstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltstone
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:San Angelo Formation, Pease River Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dark-red sandstone/siltstone/mudstone; from 1880-1945 1000 tons of crude ore was produced
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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