CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
694 Canada (New Brunswick) 47.34.15 N -- 065.37.15 W Nepisiguit River Copper; Carney Creek 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): Nepisiguit River Copper; Carney Creek
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: New Brunswick
NTS map data: 021P12 (Bathurst)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; assoc with organic matter and coal seams in seds
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) assoc with organic matter & coal seams in seds; 20 to 30 tons ore removed in 1859
References:
Alcock, F. J., 1936
Geology of Chaleur Bay Region
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 183, 146 p.

Alcock, F. J., 1941
Jacquet River and Tetagouche River Map-Areas, New Brunswick
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 227, 46 p.

Bailey, L. W., 1897
Annual Report 1897
Annual Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 10, 156 p.

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


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