CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2048 United States (Wyoming) 41.11.00 N -- 107.06.00 W Doane Rambler Cu; Zn; Pb; Ag; Au
 
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): Doane Rambler
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Wyoming; Subprovince or locality: Encampment district; Nearest community: Rawlins (65 km S)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; cupriferous quartzite, stratiform
Deposit status: past producer; Status comments: Encampment district produced about 20 million lbs of Cu, with minor Zn, Pb, Ag, and Au.
Geologic province: Cordillera
Commodities: Cu; Zn; Pb; Ag; Au
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding
fractures
Regional tectonic structure: regional folding (in north-central miogeoclinal terrain north of a shear zone)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Magnolia Formation
Mineralogy: (ore): pyrite, chalcopyrite
References:
Hausel, W. D., 1986
Mineral deposits of the Encampment District, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado
Report of Investigations , Geological Survey of Wyoming, Mountain Association of Geologists, Denver, Colorado, Publication code 37, 31 p.


Generated 2015-01-27 17:18:49 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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