The Copper and Uranium Deposits of the Coyote District, Mora County, New Mexico
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From abstract: The copper and uranium-vanadium deposits of the Coyote district, Mora County, N. Mex., are confined to the lower 2,000 feet of the Sangre de Cristo formation of Pennsylvanian and Permian age. A narrow belt of deposits in steeply dipping or overturned rocks extends for 7 miles along Coyote Creek south of Guadalupita. Earlier studies showed that the copper deposits contained uranium, but both the reserves and the uranium content of the copper-bearing shale are too low to permit the…
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Date:
December 1954
Creator:
Tschanz, Charles M.; Laub, D. C. & Fuller, G. W.
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