CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
897 Canada (Quebec) 56.21 N -- 076.26.56 W Copper Cove (Richmond Gulf) 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): Copper Cove (Richmond Gulf)
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 arkose
Geologic province: Churchill
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoaphebian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:arkose
Host rock stratigraphy:Qingaaluk Formation, Richmond Gulf Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in arkose; mineralized zone 150 m long by 6 m wide outcrops along cliff-face; zone lies with pyritic zone 25m beneath unconformity with Nastapoka gp
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

Stevenson, I. M., 1968
A Geological Reconnaisance of Leaf River Map-Area, New Quebec and Northwest Territories
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 356, 112 p., 1 maps.


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