CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1025 United States (New Mexico) 36.30.00 N -- 105.30 W Copper Hill Cu; Ag; Sb
 
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): Copper Hill
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Subprovince or locality: Taos County; Nearest community: Copper Hill
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; quartz vein-hosted cu minerals; disseminated cu minerals in quartzite; and oxidized cu minerals in fractures
Geologic province: Picuris Range
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Sb
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal arc (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Host rock stratigraphy:Ortega and Rinconada Formations
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) quartz vein-hosted Cu minls; disseminated Cu minls in quartzite; oxidized Cu minls in fractures; fract-controlled & disseminated Cu-Ag-Sb minerals in qtz veins & quartzite near veins; deposit near contact betw.massive orthoquartzite and overlying schists
References:
Williams, M. L.; Bauer, P. W., 1995
The Copper Hill Cu-Ag-Sb Deposit, Picuris Range, New Mexico: Retrograde Mineralization In a Brittle-Ductile Trap
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 1994 - 2005


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