Montana · Sanders County
Occurrence

Rock Creek

Sanders County, Montana, United States
CopperSilver
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Description

Bear Creek Mining Company

Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Silver
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeSediment hosted copper-silver
Model197: Sediment-hosted Cu200: Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formTabular
Materials
Ore mineralsBornite, Chalcocite, Silver
GangueChlorite
Geology
Host rockSiltstone,Quartzite · "Revett (middle)", "Revett (lower)"
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Discovery year1963
Identification
Deposit ID10048813
MRDS IDMP90043
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates48.07937, -115.67773
References
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, MARCH, 1989Boleneus, D.E., Appelgate, L.M., Stewart, J.H., and Zientek, M.L., 2005, Stratabound Copper-Silver Deposits of the Mesoproterozoic Revett Formation, Montana and Idaho; USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2005?5231, cuag_deposit.txt.Couture, Jean-Francois and Tanaka, William, 2005, Independent Technical Report on the Rock Creek Cu-Ag Project, Montana, U.S.A., prepared for Revett Silver Company in 2004, updated in 2005: SRK Consulting 3UR006.01 ? Revett Silver Company ? Rock Creek Cu-Ag project, Montana, Independent Technical Report, 71 p [http://www.revettminerals.com/revProRockCreekReports.php, accessed January 5, 2010]Balla, J.C. 2000. Geologic Comparison of the Troy Mine/Spar Lake Deposit\nand the Rock Creek Mine/Rock Creel Deposit, Northwestern Montana.\nUnpublished report, Steling Mining Company, 97 pagesHayes, T.S. 1983. Geologic studies on the genesis of the Spar Lake stratabound copper-silver deposit, Lincoln County, Montana. Dissertation\nfor Ph.D submitted to the Department of Applied Sciences, Stanford\nUniversity, Stanford. November 1983. TypescriptHayes, T.S., and Balla, J.C. 1986. Troy Mine, In Geological Association of\nCanada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Canadian Geophysical\nUnion joint annual meeting, 1986, Ottawa, Ontario, 10pgs.Hayes, T.S., and M.T. Einaudi. 1986. Genesis of the Spar Lake stratabound\ncopper-silver deposit, Montana: Part I controls inherited from\nsedimentation and preore diogenesis. Economic Geology. 81:1899-\n1931.Harrison, J.E. 1972. Precambrian belt basin of northwestern United States: its geometry, sedimentation and copper occurrences. Geological Society\nof America Bulletin 83: 1,215-1,240.