CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
496 United States (Michigan) 46.35 N -- 087.23 W Presque Isle (North Side) 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): Presque Isle (North Side)
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Michigan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in grey sandy conglomerate
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate (sandy - grey)
sandstone (reddish brown)
Host rock stratigraphy:Jacobsville Sandstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey sandy conglomerate; malachite stains found in 20 cm-thick cglm bed traced 12m along strike; grey cglm bed underlain by immature red basal cglm above unconformity
References:
Anonymous, 1986
Personal Communication, Geological Survey of Canada
Brown, A. C.; Kirkham, R. V., 1986
Proterozoic Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposits of Upper Michigan and Belt Supergroup of Idaho and Montana
Annual Meeting Fieldtrip Guidebook, Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canda, and Canadian Geophysical Union, Publication code 1, 74 p.


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