CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
98 United States (Montana) 47.14 N -- 112.46 W Scapegoat Wilderness - Red Ridge Cu; 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): Scapegoat Wilderness - Red Ridge
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Montana; Nearest community: Red Ridge (1 mi N)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in green grey quartzite with thin siltite layers
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Helikian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:argillite
siltite
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Spokane, Empire, and Snowslip Formations
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green grey quartzite with thin siltite layers; weak Cu mineralization widespread in wilderness area mainly in 3 fm; along fractures/bedding planes & in intergranular voids of porous rxs
References:
Harrison, J. E., 1974
Copper Mineralization in Miogeosynclinal Clastics of the Belt Super Group, Northwestern United States
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 353 - 366

Mudge, M. R.; Earhart, R. L.; Watts, Jr., K. C.; Tuchek, E. T.; Rice, W. L., 1974
Mineral Resources of the Scapegoat Wilderness, Powell and Lewis and Clark Counties, Montana
Bulletin, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 1385-B, 82 p.

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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