CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
96 United States (Montana) 47.30 N -- 114.05 W Mission Mountains 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): Mission Mountains
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Montana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; as heavy min grains with stromatolites in qtzite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Helikian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltite
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Shepard Formation, Belt Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as heavy min grains with stromatolites in qtzite; widespread irregular distribution of minor amounts of Cu/non-economic; original Cu minerals occur as heavy mineral grains/interstitial flakes
References:
Harrison, J. E., 1969
Mineral Resources of the Mission Mountains Primitive Area, Missoula and Lake Counties, Montana
Bulletin, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 1261-D, 47 p.

Harrison, J. E., 1970
Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Some Belt Rocks, Montana and Idaho
Bulletin, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 1312-O, 49 p.


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