Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Gull Lake |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador |
NTS map data: |
013K05 (Wuchusk Lake) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; in shales and slates |
Geologic province: |
Grenville |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Neohelikian (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstoneIndividual lithologies: | shale slate | Host rock stratigraphy: | Adeline Island Formation, Seal Lake Group |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in shales & slates; 3 occurrences |
References: |
Brummer, J. J., 1961 |
Geology of the Seal Lake Area, Labrador |
Bulletin, Geological Society of America, Publication code 72-9 |
Gandhi, S. S., 1975 |
Cupriferous Shales of the Adeline Island Formation, Seal Lake Group, Labrador |
Economic Geology, Volume 70, p. 145 - 163 |
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