CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
298 Mexico 26.21.30 N -- 101.25 W Cupido Formation 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): Cupido Formation
Political location(s): Mexico; Subprovince or locality: NE Mexico; Nearest community: Patula
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomite and interstratified shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (red - green)
arkose
dolomite
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Cupido Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomite and interstratified shale; Cu found in transition zone from Patula arkose to Cupido dolomites; bottom to top: Patula arkose (600m) to Cupido dolomites with shales
References:
Nicolini, P., 1962
How Sedimentological Data can be Used in Search for Stratiform Mineral Deposits: Drafting of Provisional Curves
Chronique de la Recherche Miniere, Volume 309, p. 155 - 167


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