CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
139 Kalaallit Nunaat (East) 71.42 N -- 023.05 W Orsted Dal Member 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): Orsted Dal Member
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in cross-laminated carbonate-rich channel ss beds
Geologic province: Caledonian Fold Belt
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone
External host rock forms:interbeds
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
mudstone (red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Orsted Dal Member, Fleming Fjord Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in cross-laminated carbonate-rich channel ss beds; mineralization hosted in a few approximately 0.5 metre-thick beds; typical range of Cu content -0.01% to 0.1%
References:
Clemmensen, L. B., 1980
Triassic Rift Sedimentation and Palaeogeography of Central East Greenland
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 136, 72 p.

Nielsen, B. L., 1973
A Survey of the Economic Geology of Greenland (Exclusive of Fossil Fuels)
Rapport, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 56, 45 p.

Stendal, H., 1979
Geochemical Copper Prospecting by Use of Inorganic Drainage Sediment Sampling in Central East Greenland
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 88, p. B1 - B4

Thomassen, B., 1982
Stratabound Copper-Lead-Zinc Mineralisation in the Permo-Triassic of Central East Greenland
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 143, 42 p.


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