CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2082 Kalaallit Nunaat (East Greenland) 71.40.00 N -- 022.47.00 W Wegener Halvo Zn; Pb; 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): Wegener Halvo
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East Greenland; Nearest community: Wegener Halvo
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine
Geologic province: Jameson Land basin
Commodities: Zn; Pb; Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound
Geological ages: Late Permian (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Ravnefjeld Formation
Mineralogy: (mineralization): galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite
References:
Pedersen, M.; Nielsen, J.K.; Boyce, A.J.; Fallick, A.E., 2003
Timing and genesis of base-metal mineralization in black shales of the Upper Permian Ravnefjeld Formation, Wegener Halvo, East Greenland
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 38, p. 108 - 123


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