CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
91 United States (Wyoming) 43.00 N -- 110.45 W Watercress Canyon 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): Watercress Canyon
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Wyoming; Nearest community: Watercress Canyon
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in quartzite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Pennsylvanian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Weber (Wells) Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in quartzite; several occurrences
References:
Hausel, W. D., 1981
Economic Mineral Deposits of Wyoming: A Review
Section Economic Minerals, in 32nd Annual Field Conference, Jackson Hole, 1981 (Energy Resources of Wyoming), Edited by Reid, S. G.; Miller, D. D., Guidebook, Wyoming Geological Association, 262 p, p. 131 - 159


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