CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
716 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.45.02 N -- 063.10.13 W King Mine; Oxford Cu; U; Ag
 
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): King Mine; Oxford
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E14 (Malagash)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; nodules and replacement of plant remains in slaty-ss
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; U; Ag
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey slaty)
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) nodules & replacement of plant remains in slaty-ss; in 1899 shaft sunk to 40 feet with 30-ft drift
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.

Goudge, M. G., 1947
Report on the Metalliferous Mines
in Annual Report on Mines, Edited by Nova Scotia Dept of Public Works and Mines, Annual Report, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, King's Printer, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1947, 303 p, p. 51 - 55

Messervey, J. P., 1929
Copper in Nova Scotia
Pamphlet, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 7, 40 p.


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