CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
675 Canada (Alberta) 49.19.57 N -- 114.18.17 W Whistler Mountain - 1 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): Whistler Mountain - 1
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 and argillite
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-siltstone
Individual lithologies:quartz arenite
siltstone (red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Grinnell Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grinnell quartzite & argillite; sulphides occur intergrown with silica cement; more than 25 mineralized quartz arenite units
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


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