CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
899 Canada (Quebec) 56.20.45 N -- 076.25.40 W Richmond Gulf - 2; Lac Guillaume - Delisle (2) 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): Richmond Gulf - 2; Lac Guillaume - Delisle (2)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Quebec
NTS map data: 034C08 (Lac Persillon)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in fractures in interbedded pink and green arkose
Geologic province: Churchill
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoaphebian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (pyritic - grey)
arkose
Host rock stratigraphy:Qingaaluk Formation, Richmond Gulf Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in fractures in interbedded pink & green arkose; occurs 100 m beneath unconformity with Nastapoka group;
References:
Chandler, F. W., 1978
Geological Environment of Aphebian Red Beds of the North Half of Richmond Gulf New Quebec
in Current Research, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 78-1A, 558 p, p. 107 - 110

Chandler, F. W., 1979
Geology of the Aphebian Supracrustal Rocks Lac Guillaume, Delisle, Quebec
Geological Survey of Canada, OF 600, Scale 1:50000

Chandler, F. W.; Schwartz, E. J., 1980
Tectonics of the Richmond Gulf Area, Northern Quebec - A Hypothesis
in Current Research 1980, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 80-1C, 248 p, p. 59 - 68

Chandler, F. W., 1984
Metallogenesis of an Early Proterozoic Foreland Sequence, Eastern Hudson Bay, Canada
Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 141, p. 3 - 15

Jowett, E.C., 1989
Effects of Continental Rifting on the Location and Genesis of Stratiform Copper-silver Deposits
Section Introduction, General Principles and Geochemical Aspects, in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 53 - 66


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