CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
979 Canada (Alberta) 59.37.00 N -- 111.25 W Stony Island 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): Stony Island
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Alberta; Subprovince or locality: Slave River; Nearest community: Hay Camp (7 km N)
NTS map data: 074M11 (Hay Camp)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; vein and disseminated chalcopyrite and malachite, with subordinate amounts of azurite in basement rocks; disseminated chalcopyrite occurs in lower part of Fitzgerald fm
Geologic province: Taltson Magmatic Zone
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: vein(s); disseminations
Geological ages: Proterozoic - Middle Devonian (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) vein and disseminated chalcopyrite and malachite, with subordinate amounts of azurite in basement rocks; disseminated chalcopyrite occurs in lower part of Fitzgerald fm; chalcopyrite most abundant in bedded limestone
References:
Mcdonough, M. R.; Abercrombie, H. J., 1995
Mineral Occurrences in Middle Devonian Carbonates, Salt River and Stony Islands (Slave River) Areas, Northeastern Alberta
in Current Research, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1995-B, 160 p, p. 125 - 130


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