CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
886 Canada (British Columbia) 49.00.50 N -- 114.05.45 W Wall Lake 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): Wall Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: British Columbia; Nearest community: Wall Lake
NTS map data: 082G01 (Sage Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; disseminated and interstitial in arenites
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:quartzitic sandstone
sandstone (dolomitic)
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Sheppard Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated & interstitial in arenites; several occurrences of very low grade (about 0.07% cu); Cu contained mainly in unmetamorphosed arenites of the lower Sheppard
References:
Morton, R., 1973
Sulfide Deposits Associated with Precambrian Belt-Purcell Strata in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
in Belt Symposium September 17-22, 1973 (Moscow, Idaho), Edited by University of Idaho Department of Geology; Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, Volume, University of Idaho, Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1, 322 p, p. 159 - 179

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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