CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
855 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.28.36 N -- 062.39.06 W The Island Roadcut 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): The Island Roadcut
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E07 (Hopewell)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dark grey and black oolitic and micritic limestone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone (oolitic)
shale (limy grey and green)
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dark grey & black oolitic & micritic 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

Kirkham, R. V., 1985
Base Metals in Upper Windsor (Codroy) Group Oolitic and Stromatolitic Limestones in the Atlantic Provinces
in Current Research 1985, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 85-1A, 802 p, p. 573 - 585


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