CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
768 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.39.44 N -- 063.19.34 W Oliver - No 1; French River 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): Oliver - No 1; French River
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E11 (Tatamagouche)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; nodules in sandst/also repl plant remains in congl
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:sandstone
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) nodules in sandst/also repl plant remains in congl; also replacing plant remains in underlying conglomerate
References:
Bancroft, M. F., 1944
Copper Deposits, Wentworth District, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Department of Mines Annual Report, p. 94 - 105

Barosh, P. J., 1992
Paleozoic Rifting in New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, USA and Canada
in Basement Tectonics 10: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Duluth, Minnesota, USA, August, 1992, Edited by Ojakangas, R. W.; Dickas, A. B.; Green, J. C., Proceedings, Tenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 450 p, p. 73 - 106

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.

Messervey, J. P., 1929
Copper in Nova Scotia
Pamphlet, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 7, 40 p.


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