CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2050 United States (Colorado) 39.10.00 N -- 107.28.30 W Snowmass Creek 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): Snowmass Creek
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Colorado; Nearest community: Aspen
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine
Deposit status: Status comments: disseminated sulphides in quartz sandstone and as replacement of plant fragments in sandstone rich in plant debris
Geologic province: Cordillera
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Early Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone (quartz)
Host rock stratigraphy:Dakota Sandstone
Mineralogy: (mineralization): bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, magnetite
References:
Bryant, B., 1979
Geology of the Aspen 15 Minute Quadrangle, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado.
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1073 - 123


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