CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
630 Canada (Alberta) 49.13.15 N -- 114.08.14 W Bovin Lake 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): Bovin Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Alberta
NTS map data: 082G01 (Sage Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in gateway formation sedimentary rocks
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:argillite
Host rock stratigraphy:Gateway Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in Gateway formation sedimentary rocks
References:
Morton, R., 1973
Sulfide Deposits Associated with Precambrian Belt-Purcell Strata in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
in Belt Symposium September 17-22, 1973 (Moscow, Idaho), Edited by University of Idaho Department of Geology; Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, Volume, University of Idaho, Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1, 322 p, p. 159 - 179

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


Generated 2015-01-27 17:14:10 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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