CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
685 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.32.04 N -- 061.57.45 W Pitchers Farm - 2; Dunmore Brook 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): Pitchers Farm - 2; Dunmore Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011F12 (Antigonish)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminations in shale and sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
Individual lithologies:shale
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Canso Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminations in shale and sandstone
References:
Anonymous
Assessment File (11 F 12c, 13-B-30/01)
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 F 12c

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


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