CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
850 Canada (Saskatchewan) 56.54.30 N -- 104.56.36 W Rafuse Lake Cu; Pb
 
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): Rafuse Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Saskatchewan; Nearest community: Rafuse Lake (0.34 km W)
NTS map data: 074A15 (Pendleton Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in meta-conglomerate/in mafic biotite granulite
Geologic province: Churchill
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Paleoaphebian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate (meta-conglomerate)
Host rock stratigraphy:Daly Lake Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in meta-conglomerate/in mafic biotite granulite; in place chalcocite-native cu/in boulders galena/cc/malachite/azurite; mineralization quite likely stratiform
References:
Coombe, W., 1977
La Ronge-Wollaston Belts Base Metals Project George Hill, Johnson and Kaz Lakes and Geikie River Areas
in Summary of Investigations 1977, Edited by Christopher, J. E; Macdonald, R., Saskatchewan Geological Survey, 197 p, p. 85 - 104

Kirkham, R. V., 1974
A Synopsis of Canadian Stratiform Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Sequences
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 367 - 382


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