CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
755 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.43.19 N -- 062.14.10 W Knoydart Point and Brook Cu; Pb; Zn; As; 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): Knoydart Point and Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E09 (Merigomish)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; sulphide replacing coal fragments in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn; As; Ag
Geological ages: Late Mississippian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:shale
sandstone (limy)
Host rock stratigraphy:Ardness Formation, Canso Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) sulphide replacing coal fragments in sandstone; 5 occurrences; mineralization concentrated in bed 1 foot thick
References:
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

Messervey, J. P., 1929
Copper in Nova Scotia
Pamphlet, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 7, 40 p.

Wiese, R. G., 1957
An Occurrence of Mineralized Organic Material in Nova Scotia
Economic Geology, Volume 52, p. 76 - 82


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