CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
759 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.38.03 N -- 062.57.27 W Plainfield Brook; Mackay Brook 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): Plainfield Brook; Mackay Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E10 (New Glasgow)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; chalcocite nodules assoc with coal/ in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Devonian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
arkose
greywacke
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Falls Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) chalcocite nodules assoc with coal/ in sandstone
References:
Anonymous
Assessment File (11 E 10c, 13-M-20), Copper, Plainfield, Pictou County
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 E 10c

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.

Fletcher, H., 1892
Report on Geological Surveys and Explorations in the Counties of Pictou and Colchester, Nova Scotia
Annual Report, Geological Survey of Canada, S. E. Dawson, Publication code 5 Part 2/P, 193 p.


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