CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
92 United States (Idaho) 42.20 N -- 111.15 W Montpelier 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): Montpelier
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Idaho; Nearest community: Paris
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:grit
Host rock stratigraphy:Higham Grit
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) occurs in overturned anticline limb/location approximate
References:
Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

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


Generated 2015-01-27 17:18:15 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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