CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
543 United States (Montana) 48.04 N -- 115.41 W Rock Peak Cu; Ag
 
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): Rock Peak
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Montana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in middle siltite member of the revett formation
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-siltstone
Individual lithologies:quartzite
siltite
quartzite (silty)
Host rock stratigraphy:Revett Formation, Belt Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in middle siltite member of the Revett formation; mostly as fine dissem on bedding & shear planes & as fracture coatings; host rocks metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies
References:
Henricksen, T. A.; Smith, R. G.; Franklin, R. J., 1986
Revett-Type Stratiform Silver-Copper Deposits at the U.S. Borax Noxon Project, Northwest Montana
in Program With Abstracts, Edited by Mineralogical Association of Canada; Canadian Geophysical Union; Geological Association of Canada, GAC, MAC, CGU-AGC, AMC, UCG Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa, 1986, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Canadian Geophysical Union, Geological Association of Canada, 11, 158 p, p. 80 - 81

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

Associated group(s): U.S. Borax Noxon Project (3)

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