CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
18 United States (South Dakota) 43.26 N -- 103.30 W Hot Brook Canyon Cu; Mo; Zn
 
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): Hot Brook Canyon
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: South Dakota
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in black sapropelic shale layers
Commodities: Cu; Mo; Zn
Geological ages: Pennsylvanian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale (saprolitic - black)
Host rock stratigraphy:Minnelusa Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in black sapropelic shale layers; samples represent 0.5/ 0.6/ 1.25/ 3.3 ft thickness range 70-1500ppm Cu
References:
Davidson, D. F.; Lakin, H. W., 1961
Metal Content of Some Black Shales of the Western United States
in Short Papers in the Geologic and Hydrologic Sciences, Articles 147-292, Edited by United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper, United States Geological Survey, 424-C, 398 p, p. C-329 - C-330


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