Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Hvitland |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Ellesmere Island |
NTS map data: |
560D08 560D01 |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; replacement cu sulphides in shelf carbonates |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Late Paleozoic - Late Permian (host rocks) |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) replacement Cu sulphides in shelf carbonates; two localities: 1) in bivalve coquina of the upper Paleozoic Nansen formation; 2) in grainstone of upper Permian Degerbols formation |
References: |
Harrison, J. C.; De Freitas, T., 1996 |
New Showings and New Geological Settings for Mineral Exploration in the Arctic Islands |
in Current Research 1996, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1996-B, 93 p, p. 81 - 91 |
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