Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Akamina; Flathead Valley |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: British Columbia |
NTS map data: |
082G01 (Sage Creek) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; dissem between grains of quartz in sandstone |
Geologic province: |
Cordilleran Orogen |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag |
Geological ages: |
Helikian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; quartziteIndividual lithologies: | quartzitic sandstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Purcell Series, Grinnell (and Siyeh, Appekunny) |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem between grains of quartz in sandstone; also as clots associated with shale fragments & as fracture fillings |
References: |
Anonymous, 1969 |
Annual Report 1968 |
Annual Report, British Columbia Minister of Mines, 513 p. |
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