CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
760 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.37.56 N -- 062.47.45 W Durham 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): Durham
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E10 (New Glasgow)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; replacing plant remains in congl patches in sandst
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate (green grey)
sandstone (red)
Host rock stratigraphy:Boss Point Formation, Riverdale Group (possibly)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) replacing plant remains in congl patches in sandst; mined prior to 1882-no production figures given
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

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.

Fletcher, H., 1892
Report on Geological Surveys and Explorations in the Counties of Pictou and Colchester, Nova Scotia
Annual Report, Geological Survey of Canada, S. E. Dawson, Publication code 5 Part 2/P, 193 p.


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