CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
753 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.28.56 N -- 062.39.55 W Hopewell; East 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): Hopewell; East River
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E07 (Hopewell)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; nodules/seams/layers/assoc w plant remains in ss
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Mississippian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
arkose
greywacke
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) nodules/seams/layers/assoc w plant remains in ss
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

Benson, D. G., 1967
Geology of the Hopewell Map-Area, Nova Scotia
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 343, 58 p.

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.

Fletcher, H., 1892
Report on Geological Surveys and Explorations in the Counties of Pictou and Colchester, Nova Scotia
Annual Report, Geological Survey of Canada, S. E. Dawson, Publication code 5 Part 2/P, 193 p.

How, H., 1869
Mineralogy of Nova Scotia
Report to the Provincial Government, Provincial Government of Nova Scotia, 217 p.

Messervey, J. P., 1929
Copper in Nova Scotia
in Annual Report on the Mines, Edited by Nova Scotia Dept of Public Works and Mines, Annual Report, Nova Scotia Department of Public Works and Mines, 1929-Part1, 273 p, p. 85 - 106


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