CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
874 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 48.01.30 N -- 058.51.22 W Bald Mountain 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): Bald Mountain
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador; Nearest community: Bald Mountain (4.5 km SW)
NTS map data: 012B02 (St Fintan's)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; disseminated in black point - like limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Mississippian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Codroy Road Formation, Codroy Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in black point - like limestone
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

Knight, I., 1983
Geology of the Carboniferous Bay St George Subbasin, Western Newfoundland
Memoir, Mineral Development Division, Department of Mines and Energy, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Publication code 1


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