Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Dumas Lake |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories |
NTS map data: |
086K08 (Adam Lake) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; disseminated in quartz wacke/lithic wacke/conglom |
Geologic province: |
Bear |
Commodities: |
Cu; Ag; Pb; U |
Geological ages: |
Early Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerateIndividual lithologies: | quartz wacke mudstone (maroon) lithic wacke conglomerate | Host rock stratigraphy: | Dumas Group |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in quartz wacke/lithic wacke/conglom; hosted by 2 discrete sedimentary horizons in s & n limbs of anticline; host rocks represent lacustrine & fluvial red bed sequence |
References: |
Gosse, M.; Sawiuk, M., 1986 |
Sediment-Hosted Stratabound Copper Mineralization in the Early Proterozoic Great Bear Magmatic Zone |
Royal School of Mines Journal, Volume 36, p. 13 - 18 |
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