CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
58 United States (New Mexico) 34.51 N -- 104.51 W Stauber; Guadalupe 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): Stauber; Guadalupe
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; diss in sandstone and replacing woody plant debris
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
shale (clay or shale)
Host rock stratigraphy:Santa Rosa Member, Chinle Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) diss in sandstone & replacing woody plant debris; from 1925 to 1957 mine produced 6600 tons of Cu and 42000 ounces of Ag; ore-bearing ss up to 12 ft thick/extends 1500 ft in length/320 ft wide
References:
Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

Lapoint, D. J., 1979
Geology Geochemistry and Petrology of Sandstone Copper Deposits in New Mexico
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, 333 p.

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

Production data: 5,000,000 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 100 percent
Reference: Hagni, R. D., 1988: Mineralogy, Origin, and Potential for Discovery of Creta, Oklahoma Copper Shale-Type Deposits in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas; in North American Conference on Tectonic Control of Ore Deposits and the Vertical and Horizontal Extent of Ore Systems, Edited by Kisvarsanyi, G.; Grant, S. K., Proceedings Volume, University of MIssouri-Rolla, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 567 p, p. 455 - 467
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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