CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
711 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.37.55 N -- 063.31.21 W East Wallace River; Higgins Brook 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): East Wallace River; Higgins Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E12 (Oxford)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; slphds assoc with carbonaceous material in sandst
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Boss Point Formation, Riverdale Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) sulphides assoc with carbonaceous material in sandstone
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

Shumway, G., 1951
Sedimentary Copper, Tatamagouche Area, Nova Scotia
M.Sc. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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