CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
629 Canada (Alberta) 49.12.54 N -- 114.00.16 W Blind Canyon - 2; Bighorn (?) 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): Blind Canyon - 2; Bighorn (?)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Alberta
NTS map data: 082G01 (Sage Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in grinnell formation argillite 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; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:argillite
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Grinnell Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in Grinnell formation argillite and sandstone
References:
Goble, E., 1974
Kintla Explorations Ltd Final Geological Report 1972-1973 Programs, Big Horn Claims, Yarrow Creek-Spionkop Creek, Southwestern Alberta
Copper Geology File, Government of Alberta

Morton, R., 1973
Sulfide Deposits Associated with Precambrian Belt-Purcell Strata in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
in Belt Symposium September 17-22, 1973 (Moscow, Idaho), Edited by University of Idaho Department of Geology; Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, Volume, University of Idaho, Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1, 322 p, p. 159 - 179

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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