CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
80 United States (Utah) 38.14 N -- 109.13 W Big Indian 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): Big Indian
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Utah
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone associated with coaly beds and fault
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Dakota Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone associated with coaly beds and fault; 2000 ft-3000ft fault between Cu deposit and adjacent uranium deposits
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.

Schmitt, L. J., 1969
Uranium and Copper Mineralization in the Big Indian Wash-Lisbon Valley Mining District, Southeastern Utah
Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 173 p.


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