CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
146 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 54.18.50 N -- 061.57.59 W Ellis Pond Mineral Occ No 26; Ellis Prospect Cu; Ag; Ba
 
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): Ellis Pond Mineral Occ No 26; Ellis Prospect
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador
NTS map data: 013K05 (Wuchusk Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; diss and seams in green-grey shale
Geologic province: Grenville
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Ba
Geological ages: Neohelikian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale (green grey)
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Adeline Island Formation, Seal Lake Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) diss & seams in green-grey shale; this property is one of 250 showings in the area
References:
Brummer, J. J., 1961
Geology of the Seal Lake Area, Labrador
Bulletin, Geological Society of America, Publication code 72-9

Gandhi, S. S., 1975
Cupriferous Shales of the Adeline Island Formation, Seal Lake Group, Labrador
Economic Geology, Volume 70, p. 145 - 163

Mann, E. L., 1959
Geology of the Seal Lake Area, Central Labrador
Ph.D. Thesis, Mcgill University


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