CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
74 United States (Colorado) 38.00 N -- 107.53 W Cougar Cu; U
 
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): Cougar
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Colorado
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; sandstone roll-type u-cu deposit
Commodities: Cu; U
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Morrison Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) sandstone roll-type U-Cu deposit; sharp interface btwn ore & barren/cu with U along margins of roll; Cu minerals mainly volborthite/ some malachite & azurite
References:
Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Shields, W. R., 1965
Natural Variations in the Abundance Ratio and the Atomic Weight of Copper
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 70, p. 479 - 491

Young, R. G., 1978
Depositional Systems and Dispersal Patterns in Uraniferous Sandstones of the Colorado Plateau, Utah
Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Volume 61, p. 843 - 843


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