CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
640 Canada (Alberta) 49.13.40 N -- 114.01 W Spionkop Creek; 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): Spionkop Creek; 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


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