CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
668 Canada (Alberta) 49.17.47 N -- 114.02.16 W Drywood Creek; Drywood Mountain 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): Drywood Creek; Drywood Mountain
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Alberta
NTS map data: 082G08 (Beaver Mines)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in grinnell formation sandstone
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Grinnell Formation, Purcell (Belt) Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in Grinnell formation sandstone
References:
Anonymous, 1970
Annual Report of Prospectus Minerals Ltd 1970
Annual Report, Prospectus Minerals Ltd

Anonymous, 1971
Copper Geology File 1971
Copper Geology File

Ryan, P. C.; Buckley, S., 1993
Sedimentation, Stratabound Cu-Ag Mineralization and Syndepositional Tectonics in the Revett Formation, Flathead Indian Reservation, Western Montana
in Belt Symposium III, Edited by Berg, R. B., Special Publication, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 112, 295 p, p. 278 - 289


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