CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
55 United States (New Mexico) 35.59.30 N -- 106.53.30 W San Miguel 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): San Miguel
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: New Mexico
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; ore repl woody debris and surrounding sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:quartz sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Agua Zarca Member, Chinle Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) ore repl woody debris and surrounding sandstone; 10 m tons 0.67% Cu/ cc/bn/cv/mal/azur/crys/py/cp in San Juan basin
References:
Kaufman, W. H., 1972
Stratiform Copper Mineralization in the Nacimiento Region, New Mexico
Target Exploration Report E-1, New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Publication code E-1

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.

United States Department of The Interior, 1971
Area Reports: Domestic
Volume 2, in Minerals Yearbook 1971, Edited by United States Department of The Interior, United States Department of The Interior, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 566 p

Woodward, L. A., 1974
Strata-Bound Copper Deposits in Triassic Sandstone of Sierra Nacimiento, New Mexico
Economic Geology, Volume 69, p. 108 - 120


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