CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
100 United States (Montana) 47.50 N -- 115.22 W Vermilion River 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): Vermilion River
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Montana; Nearest community: Seven Point Mountain
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; diss sulphide blebs fill pore spaces in quartzite
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Helikian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:quartzite
argillite
siltite
Host rock stratigraphy:Revett Formation, Ravalli Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) diss sulphide blebs fill pore spaces in quartzite; mineralization controlled by primary porosity & sedimentary structures; mineralization confined to upper portions of Revett fm
References:
Clark, A. L., 1971
Strata-Bound Copper Sulphides in the Precambrian Belt Supergroup, Northern Idaho and Northwestern Montana
in Papers and Proceedings of the Seventh General IMA-IAGOD Meeting, Tokyo-Kyoto, 27 August-2 September, 1970, Edited by Takeuchi, Y.; Tatsumi, T.; Takenouchi, S.; Miyazawa, T.; Kanehira, K.; Sekine, Y.; Kato, A.; Fuji, T.; Isihara, S., Special Issue, Society of Mining Geologists of Japan, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), Mining Geology, 3, 500 p, p. 261 - 267

Lange, I., 1975
Revett Sulfide Deposits and Sandstone-Type Red-Bed Copper Deposits of the Southwestern United States
Northwest Geology, Volume 4, p. 59 - 75

Lindsey, T. R., 1979
The Vermilion River Montana Revett-Type Copper Deposit
Northwest Geology, Volume 8, p. 53 - 59

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

Trammell, J., 1970
Stratabound Base Metal Sulfides in the Belt Supergroup of Montana
Section Structural Geology and Economic Geology, in Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section, 23rd Annual Meeting, May 1970, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts With Programs, Geological Society of America, V2, No 5, p. 352 - 352


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