CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
482 United States (Montana) 46.55 N -- 112.05 W Canyon Creek; Rogers Pass Cu; Ag
 
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): Canyon Creek; Rogers Pass
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Montana; Subprovince or locality: SE Quarter
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in green argillite interbeds within quartzite
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:quartzite (white feldspathic)
argillite (green)
siltite
Host rock stratigraphy:Middle Spokane Formation, Belt Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green argillite interbeds within quartzite; mineralized beds reduced (with C-organic residue) in 30 m-thick zone; maroon rocks enclose potentially economic Cu-bearing sandst intervals
References:
Braun, E. R.; Lange, I. M., 1984
Organic Control of Sandstone-Hosted Copper-Silver Mineralization in the Spokane Formation near Rogers Pass, Western Montana
Metallic Minerals, in Northwest Montana and Adjacent Canada, Edited by McBane, J. D.; Garrison, P. B., Field Conference and Symposium, Montana Geological Society, 368 p, p. 305 - 313

Lange, I. M.; Herberger, D; Whipple, J. W.; Krouse, H. R., 1989
Stratabound Cu-Ag and Pb-Zn Mineralization in the Spokane and Helena Formations in the Eastern Part of the Belt Basin, Montana:A Common Origin?
in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 287 - 304


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