CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
744 Canada (Nova Scotia) 46.07.48 N -- 060.20.30 W Musgrave Showing; Frenchvale Road 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): Musgrave Showing; Frenchvale Road
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011K01 (Sydney)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; disseminated in limestone and conglomerate
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:limestone
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in limestone & conglomerate
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

Binney, W. P., 1975
Copper Occurrences in Lower Carboniferous Sedimentary Rocks of the Maritime Provinces
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 281, 156 p.

Fletcher, H., 1900
Sydney Coal Field
Separate Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 685

Shaw, W. S., 1974
Cape Breton Mineral Resource Project


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