CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
693 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 54.17.53 N -- 062.03.30 W Adeline Island Prospect Cu; Ag; Zn
 
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): Adeline Island Prospect
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador
NTS map data: 013L08
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; veins and disseminations in schistose shale/also fractures in qtuartzite
Geologic province: Grenville
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Zn
Geological ages: Neohelikian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:shale (grey)
slate
Host rock stratigraphy:Adeline Island Formation, Seal Lake Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) veins & disseminations in schistose shale/also fractures in qtzite; widespread but erratic mineralization along the same horizon
References:
Brummer, J. J.
Report on Operations in Frobishers Seal Lake Concession, Central Labrador, Newfoundland
Unpublished Report, Kennco Exploration Limited

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

Hale, W. E., 1967
Preliminary Report on Field Investigations Seal Lake Copper: Silver Occurrences 1967
Private Report, British Newfoundland Exploration Limited

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

Robinson, W. G., 1952
Exploration on the Seal Lake Concession, Labrador, during 1952
Unpublished Report, Frobisher Limited


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