CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
52 United States (New Mexico) 32.57.30 N -- 105.47 W Courtney 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): Courtney
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in arkosic shale as nodules and replacement of organic matter
Geologic province: High Roll District
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-basin-and-range; transtensive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing)
Individual lithologies:shale (grey arkosic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Abo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in arkosic shale as nodules/& repl of organic mat; in 1929 a few cars of ore containing about 3.3% copper were shipped; chalcocite & its alteration & oxidation products are main ore minerals
References:
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

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


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