CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
584 United States (Montana) 46.52 N -- 112.07 W Wolf Creek 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): Wolf Creek
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Montana
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in green siltst beds/phosphatic unit/oolitic lmsn
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:limestone
siltstone (green and red)
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Spokane Fm/ Ravalli Group, Belt Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green siltst beds/phosphatic unit/oolitic lmsn; 4 mineralized beds within 23 metre-thick section of Spokane Formation; Cu conc up to 1% & Ag conc up to 29 ppm occur in the oolitic limestone
References:
Lange, I. M.; Moore, J. N.; Krouse, H. R., 1987
Diagenesis and Copper Mineralization in Carbonates in the Spokane Formation, Belt Supergroup, at Wolf Creek, Montana
Economic Geology, Volume 82, p. 1334 - 1347


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