CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
787 Canada (Ontario) 45.21 N -- 075.56 W South March - 1 U; 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): South March - 1
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 031G05 (Ottawa)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in dolomitic sandstone of march fm
Geologic province: Southern
Commodities: U; Cu
Geological ages: Ordovician (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
dolomite (sandy)
Host rock stratigraphy:March Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic sandstone of March fm
References:
Charbonneau, B. W.; Jonasson, I. R.; Ford, K. L., 1975
Cu-U Mineralization in the March Formation, Paleozoic Rocks of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowlands
Mineral Deposits, in Report of Activities, April to October 1974, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 75-1A, 602 p, p. 229 - 233

Ford, K. L., 1975
Petrography, Geochemistry and Geophysics of a U-Cu Occurrence South March
B.Sc. Thesis, Carleton University Ottawa

Grasty, R. L., 1973
A Uranium Occurrence in Paleozoic Rocks West of Ottawa
in Report of Activities 1973, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 73-1A, 297 p, p. 286 - 289

Jonasson, I. R., 1974
Some Studies of Geochemical Dispersion About a Small Uranium Showing, March Township
in Report of Activities 1974, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 74-1B, 297 p, p. 61 - 63

Jonasson, I. R., 1977
On the Nature and Formation of Radioactive Hydrocarbons from the Ordovician Rocks of the Ottawa Area
in Report of Activities 1977, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 77-1B, 350 p, p. 109 - 111

Steacy, H. R., 1973
Mineralogical Notes on the Uranium Occurrences at South March and Eldorado, Ontario
in Report of Activities 1973, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 73-1B, 216 p, p. 103 - 105

Wilson, A. E., 1946
Geology of the Ottawa-St Lawrence Lowland, Ontario and Quebec
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 241, 66 p.


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