CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
743 Canada (Nova Scotia) 46.01.36 N -- 060.26.42 W Boisdale Pb; Ag; Zn; 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): Boisdale
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011K01 (Sydney)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in dolomitic-limestone near conglomerate contact
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Pb; Ag; Zn; Cu
Geological ages: Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomitic-limestone near conglomerate contact
References:
Alcock, F. J., 1930
Zinc and Lead Deposits of Canada
Economic Geology Series, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 8, 406 p.

Anonymous
Assessment File (21 K 1b, 27-C-15)
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 21 K 1b 2

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

Fletcher, H., 1900
Sydney Coal Field
Separate Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 685

Messervey, J. P., 1929
Lead and Zinc in Nova Scotia
Pamphlet, Nova Scotia Department of Public Works and Mines, Publication code 15, 43 p.

Nova Scotia Department of Mines, 1952
Annual Report on Mines 1951
Report, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 1951, 192 p.


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