CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
6 United States (Pennsylvania) 41.17.30 N -- 076.36 W Beaver Lake Area Cu; U; 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): Beaver Lake Area
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Pennsylvania
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; lens-shaped/tabular zones in greenish-grey ss beds
Commodities: Cu; U; Ag
Geological ages: Late Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (green grey)
siltstone (green grey)
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Catskill Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) lens-shaped/tabular zones in greenish-grey ss beds; gray to green channel deposits are rich in carbonaceous material; occur in lower part of Catskill fm of interlayered red & grey beds
References:
Glaeser, J. D., 1974
Upper Devonian Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environments in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Fourth Series Harrisburg, General Geology Report, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Publication code 63, 64 p.

Lesure, F. G., 1977
Exploration Geochemical Studies of Some Sandstone Copper-Uranium Deposits, Bradford, Columbia and Lycoming Counties, Pennsylvania
Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey, Volume 5, p. 609 - 621

Mccauley, J. F., 1961
Uranium in Pennsylvania
Fourth Series Bulletin, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Publication code M43, 71 p.


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