CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
29 United States (Oklahoma) 34.47 N -- 097.17 W Paoli; Teepee Queen Cu; Ag
 
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): Paoli; Teepee Queen
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Oklahoma
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in fluvial channels in sandstone
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Garber formation, Wichita group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in fluvial channels in sandstone; production from two side-hill cuts reported as 'a few tons' in 1913
References:
Lapoint, D. J., 1979
Geology Geochemistry and Petrology of Sandstone Copper Deposits in New Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 333 p.

Merritt, C. A., 1940
Copper in the Red Beds of Oklahoma
Mineral Report No. 8, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Publication code 8, 19 p.

Stroud, R. B., 1970
Production Potential of Copper Deposits Associated with Permian Red Bed Formations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas
Bureau of Mines RI, United States Department of The Interior, Publication code 7422


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