Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Ady |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: New Mexico; Nearest community: Alamogordo |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; galena is a major sulphide; mixed mineralization of chalcocite, digenite, and covellite; chalcocite occurs as nodules, replacements of woody debris and replacements in limestone |
Geologic province: |
High Rolls District |
Commodities: |
Cu; Pb |
Geological ages: |
Permian (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental marginal basin; stable (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstone; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing)Host rock stratigraphy: | Abo Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) galena a major sulphide; mixed mineralization of chalcocite, digenite & covellite; chalcocite as nodules, replacements of woody debris & replacements in limestone; in nonred units in lower part of Abo fm above basal red conglomerate; Pb only in arkosic ss |
References: |
Lapoint, D. J., 1989 |
A Model for the Diagenetic Formation of Sandstone Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Rocks of Permian and Triassic Age, in New Mexico, U.S.A. |
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 357 - 70 |
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