CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1027 United States (Utah) 38.06.20 N -- 109.06 W Lucky Strike Cu; U; V
 
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): Lucky Strike
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Utah; Subprovince or locality: Three Step Hill - lower slope
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; ore minerals are brochantite and volborthite coating fracture surfaces
Geologic province: Lisbon Valley
Commodities: Cu; U; V
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) ore minerals are brochantite and volborthite coating fracture surfaces; also, brochantite is disseminated in sandstone and chalcocite impregnations in sandstone; mineralized sandstone in adit is anomalously radioactive
References:
Weir, G. W.; Puffett, W. P., 1981
Stratigraphy and Structural Geology and Uranium-Vanadium and Copper Deposits of Lisbon Valley Area, Utah-Colorado
Open File, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 81-39, 306 p.


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