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): |
Watersmeet |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Michigan; Nearest community: Watersmeet (13 km NW) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; in white orthoquartzite interlayered with marble |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; quartziteIndividual lithologies: | orthoquartzite (vitreous) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Chocolay Group, Marquette Range Supergroup |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in white orthoquartzite interlayered with marble; two quartzite beds 0.25-0.5 metre thick-mineralized mostly with chalco; massive quartzite beds have sharp contact with the tremolitic marble |
References: |
Cannon, W. F., 1980 |
Copper-Bearing Quartzite near Watersmeet, Michigan |
Open File Report, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 80-390, 6 p. |
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