CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
904 Canada (British Columbia) 49.10.11 N -- 114.23.17 W Commerce Creek Cu; Ag; Au
 
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): Commerce Creek
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; in dolomite and redbeds/ also as veins in seds
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Au
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Grinnell Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup

(2) sedimentary; sandstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomite & redbeds/ also as veins in seds; several zones & showings/ reserves for a dolomite bed
References:
Anonymous, 1970
Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia (GEM)
GEM, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Publication code 1970, 561 p.

Anonymous, 1972
(?)
Assessment Report, Publication code 4535

Anonymous, 1973
Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia (GEM)
GEM, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Publication code 1973, 642 p.

Anonymous, 1973
Assessment Rept 5070
Assessment Report, Publication code 5070

Anonymous, 1974
Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia (GEM)
GEM, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Publication code 1974, 466 p.

Anonymous, 1976
Exploration In British Columbia
Exploration In British Columbia, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Publication code 1976, 247 p., 2 maps.

Olson, P. E., 1968
Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia
Annual Report, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Publication code 1968, 513 p.

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


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