CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
670 Canada (Alberta) 49.15 N -- 114.22.30 W Middle Kootenay Pass 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): Middle Kootenay Pass
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Alberta
NTS map data: 082G08 (Beaver Mines)
082G01 (Sage Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminations in quartz arenite and sandstone
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone
Individual lithologies:quartz arenite
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Grinnell Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminations in quartz arenite and sandstone; sulphides occur intergrown with silica cement
References:
Collins, J. A., 1977
Genesis of Cupriferous Quartz Arenite Cycles in the Grinnel Formation
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, Volume 25, p. 713 - 714

Ryan, P. C.; Buckley, S., 1993
Sedimentation, Stratabound Cu-Ag Mineralization and Syndepositional Tectonics in the Revett Formation, Flathead Indian Reservation, Western Montana
in Belt Symposium III, Edited by Berg, R. B., Special Publication, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 112, 295 p, p. 278 - 289


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