CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
894 Canada (British Columbia) 49.00.30 N -- 114.10 W Starvation Creek - 2 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): Starvation Creek - 2
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: British Columbia
NTS map data: 082G01 (Sage Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in dolomitic argillite
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-carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
dolomite
argillite
limestone (sandy)
Host rock stratigraphy:Middle-Upper Siyeh Formation, Purcell Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic argillite; two occurrences carry low Cu values (average 0.01 to 0.08% Cu)
References:
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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