CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
903 Canada (Northwest Territories) 61.16 N -- 127.05 W Flat 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): Flat River
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 095E06
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; bornite in fine-grained quartzite
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Cambrian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:phyllite
slate
Host rock stratigraphy:Phyllite Unit

(2) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Host rock stratigraphy:Phyllite Unit

(3) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltsone
argillite
Host rock stratigraphy:Phyllite Unit
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) bornite in fine-grained quartzite
References:
Gabrielse, H., 1973
Geology of Flat River, Glacier Lake, and Wrigley Lake Map-Areas, District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 366, Part , 421 p.


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