CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
59 United States (New Mexico) 33.13 N -- 105.50 W Tularosa 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): Tularosa
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in gypsum as concretions and replaces coalified wood
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Quaternary (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:gypsum
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in gypsum as concretions & replaces coalified wood; gypsum bed is Pleistocene(?) playa deposit about 5 ft thick; deposit rests unconformably on permian sed rocks/Cu class questionable
References:
Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Soule, J. H., 1956
Reconnaissance of the "Red Bed" Copper Deposits in Southeastern Colorado and New Mexico
Information Circular, United States Department of The Interior, Bureau of Mines, Publication code 7740, 74 p.


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