CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
16 United States (Michigan) 46.21 N -- 089.19 W Watersmeet 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): Watersmeet
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Michigan; Nearest community: Watersmeet (13 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in white orthoquartzite interlayered with marble
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:orthoquartzite (vitreous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Chocolay Group, Marquette Range Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in white orthoquartzite interlayered with marble; two quartzite beds 0.25-0.5 metre thick-mineralized mostly with chalco; massive quartzite beds have sharp contact with the tremolitic marble
References:
Cannon, W. F., 1980
Copper-Bearing Quartzite near Watersmeet, Michigan
Open File Report, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 80-390, 6 p.


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