CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
207 Canada (Nunavut) 69.47.24 N -- 076.25.25 W Sample # 17 (GSC OF 3391) Cu; Au; Ag
 
Database name: Canadian Iron Formation
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: G. A. Gross and E. M. Hillary
Release date: 2014-10-01
   
Deposit name(s): Sample # 17 (GSC OF 3391) (occurrence)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Central Baffin Island
NTS map data: 037C16
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type; Cu, Au and Ag mineralization with sulphide facies iron-formation in mafic volcanics of Archean age.
Deposit status: showing
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Rae craton
Geologic district: Foxe fold belt
Commodities: Cu; Au; Ag
Geological ages: Archean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks; Component: mineralization zone
Individual lithologies:basalt
Host rock stratigraphy:Mary River Group

(2) sedimentary; iron formation (algoma-type); Component: mineralization zone
Individual lithologies:iron formation - sulphide
Host rock stratigraphy:Mary River Group
Mineralogy: (mineralization / mineralization zone): chalcopyrite, pyrite, malachite, magnetite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: mineralization) Cu and anomalous Au, and Ag associated with mafic volcanic rocks.
Links to other databases: NUMIN; Key value: 037CNE0013
Samples data: (1) Sample type: rock - grab (select); Source ID: sample location -17; Collector: Bethune and Scammel
Commodities and grades in order of importance:Cu: 3,440 ppm
Au: 165 ppb
Ag: 5.3 ppm
Reference number: Bethune, K. M.; Scammel, R. J., 1997: Precambrian Geology, Koch Island area, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories, (parts of NTS 37C); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3391, Scale 1:50000
References:
de Kemp, E. A.; Scott, D. J., 1998
Digital geoscience compilation of North Baffin Island and North Melville Peninsula, Northwest Territories
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File, CD-ROM

Morgan, W. C., 1982
Geology, Koch Island, Northwest Territories
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3634, Scale 1:500000


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