CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
54 United States (New Mexico) 32.55 N -- 105.48 W Sacramento Mountains 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): Sacramento Mountains
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in arkose and arkosic shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Permian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-basin-and-range; transtensive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: lacustrine
Individual lithologies:shale (arkosic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Abo Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in arkose & arkosic shale; 2 mines & over 20 showings/ from 1908-1948 produced 80 tons cu/900t pb
References:
Lapoint, D. J., 1979
Geology Geochemistry and Petrology of Sandstone Copper Deposits in New Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 333 p.

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

Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.


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