CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
791 Canada (Ontario) 46.00.52 N -- 081.48.02 W Lewis Lake 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): Lewis Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 041I04 (Whitefish Falls)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; slfds in dolomite at paleozoic/precam unconformity
Geologic province: Southern
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Ordovician (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:dolomite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) slfds in dolomite at paleozoic/precam unconformity; located on highway 68/ 0.8 km east of lewis lake; limited sulphides confined to small/sandy/ dolomite-filled depressions
References:
Pearson, W. N., 1978
Copper Metallogeny, Lake Huron Area, Ontario
in Current Research, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 78-1A, 558 p, p. 263 - 268


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