CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
155 Canada (Ontario) 46.37.45 N -- 082.48 W Cobre Lake 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): Cobre Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 041J10 (Rawhide Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated in sandstone
Geologic province: Southern
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Aphebian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Gordon Lake Formation, Cobalt Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in sandstone; Cu occurs at contact of Lorrain Fm & overlying Gordon Lake Fm; contact occurs at transition from fluvial to tidal marine conditions
References:
Chandler, F. W., 1984
Sedimentary Setting of An Early Proterozoic Copper Occurrence in the Cobalt Group Ontario: a Preliminary Assessment
in Current Research 1984, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 84-1A, 666 p, p. 185 - 192

Pearson, W. N., 1979
Copper Metallogeny North Shore Region of Lake Huron
in Current Research 1979, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 79-1A, 407 p, p. 289 - 304


Generated 2015-01-27 17:15:31 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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