CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
75 United States (Colorado) 37.27 N -- 102.14 W Dunlap Ranch; Jackpot 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): Dunlap Ranch; Jackpot
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Colorado
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Entrada Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone
References:
Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Soule, J. H., 1956
Reconnaissance of the "Red Bed" Copper Deposits in Southeastern Colorado and New Mexico
Information Circular, United States Department of The Interior, Bureau of Mines, Publication code 7740, 74 p.

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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