Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Grizzly Creek |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Alberta |
NTS map data: |
082G08 (Beaver Mines) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in grinnell quartzite |
Geologic province: |
Cordilleran Orogen |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Middle Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; quartziteIndividual lithologies: | quartzite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Grinnell Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in Grinnell quartzite; sulphides occur intergrown with silica cement |
References: |
Anonymous, 1971 |
Copper Geology File 1971 |
Copper Geology File |
Collins, J. A., 1977 |
Genesis of Cupriferous Quartz Arenite Cycles in the Grinnel Formation |
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, Volume 25, p. 713 - 714 |
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 |
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