CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
601 Kalaallit Nunaat (East) 71.34 N -- 022.44 W Wegener Halvo Cu; Pb
 
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): Wegener Halvo
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; as thick veinlets and breccia-fillings with gangue
Geologic province: Caledonian Fold Belt
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Late Permian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Internal host rock structures:bioherms
Individual lithologies:limestone
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Foldvik Creek Formation, limestone-dolomite member
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as thick veinlets & breccia-fillings with gangue; sulphides occur scattered over the whole peninsula; Pb/Cu minerals found near top of bioherms as mm-decim thick veinlets
References:
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.


Generated 2015-01-27 17:16:48 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
GlobalDB System, Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada