CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1132 United States (Colorado) 38.12.45 N -- 105.39 W Rita Alta Cu; U; Ag; Mo; Pb; V; Zn
 
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): Rita Alta
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Colorado
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated chalcopyrite and chalcocite and secondary malachite and azurite; disseminated uranium in plant remains; copper-iron sulphides in quartz-barite veins
Geologic province: Sandgre de Cristo Range
Commodities: Cu; U; Ag; Mo; Pb; V; Zn
Geological ages: Pennsylvanian - Early Permian (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated chalcopyrite & chalcocite, & 2dry malachite & azurite; disseminated uranium in plant remains; Cu-Fe sulphides in quartz-barite veins; low grade redbed Cu & U showings occur mainly in beds & lenses of grey siltstone beneath red-grey boundary
References:
Lindsey, D. A.; Clark, R. F., 1995
Copper and Uranium in Pennsylvanian and Permian Sedimentary Rocks, Northern Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado
Bulletin, U.S. Geological Survey, Publication code 2116, 23 p.


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