CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
889 Canada (British Columbia) 49.09.10 N -- 114.20.45 W Sage Creek - Commerce Peak Cu; Ag
 
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): Sage Creek - Commerce Peak
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: British Columbia; Nearest community: Commerce Peak
NTS map data: 082G01 (Sage Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in arenite of the missoula group
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:mudstone
siltstone
sandstone
dolomite
arenite
Host rock stratigraphy:Roosville Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in arenite of the Missoula group; arenite up to 10 ft thick carry 0.27 to 1.57% Cu & 0.3 to 5 ppm Ag
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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