CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
136 Kalaallit Nunaat (East) 71.05 N -- 022.15 W Liverpool Land High Cu; Zn; Pb; 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): Liverpool Land High
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East; Nearest community: Carlesberg Fjord
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; forms part of cement in grey calcareous sandstone
Geologic province: Caledonian Fold Belt
Commodities: Cu; Zn; Pb; Ag
Geological ages: Middle Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (calcareous - grey)
mudstone (black)
Host rock stratigraphy:Kap Seaforth Member, Gipsdalen Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) forms part of cement in grey calcareous sandstone; mineralized bed up to 0.5m thick of marginal lacustrine sandstone; mineralized sed contain carbonaceous matter/ avg 0.3% cu+minor zn & pb
References:
Clemmensen, L. B., 1980
Triassic Rift Sedimentation and Palaeogeography of Central East Greenland
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 136, 72 p.

Nielsen, B. L., 1973
A Survey of the Economic Geology of Greenland (Exclusive of Fossil Fuels)
Rapport, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 56, 45 p.

Stendal, H., 1979
Geochemical Copper Prospecting by Use of Inorganic Drainage Sediment Sampling in Central East Greenland
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 88, p. B1 - B4

Thomassen, B., 1982
Stratabound Copper-Lead-Zinc Mineralisation in the Permo-Triassic of Central East Greenland
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 143, 42 p.


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