CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
887 Canada (British Columbia) 49.01.30 N -- 114.04 W Wall Lake - Akamina Creek 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 - Akamina Creek
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 in calcareous siltstones
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (calcareous)
argillite
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Middle Gateway Formation, Purcell Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in calcareous siltstones; several occurrences in 5-7 ft thick siltst beds grade 0.32 to 0.54% Cu
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


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