CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
733 Canada (British Columbia) 52.35.29 N -- 121.46.40 W Ml; Morehead Lake 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): Ml; Morehead Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: British Columbia
NTS map data: 093A12 (Hydraulic)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminations in limestone and sandstone
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Jurassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:limestone
sandstone (maroon to grey)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminations in limestone & sandstone; syenite dykes cut all sedimentary rock types in the area
References:
Anonymous, 1976
Exploration In British Columbia
Exploration In British Columbia, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Publication code 1976, 247 p., 2 maps.

Bailey, D. G., 1975
Geology of the Morehead Lake Area South-Central British Columbia (93A/12)
in Geological Fieldwork 1975, Edited by Anonymous, British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, 123 p, p. 59 - 65


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