CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
771 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.46.10 N -- 063.19.25 W Malagash Centre; Malagash - South Shore 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): Malagash Centre; Malagash - South Shore
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E14 (Malagash)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; slphds assoc with plant remains in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) slphds assoc with plant remains in sandstone; mined for Cu prior to 1890 but no production figures given
References:
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

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.

Fletcher, H., 1892
Report on Geological Surveys and Explorations in the Counties of Pictou and Colchester, Nova Scotia
Annual Report, Geological Survey of Canada, S. E. Dawson, Publication code 5 Part 2/P, 193 p.

Shumway, G., 1951
Sedimentary Copper, Tatamagouche Area, Nova Scotia
M.Sc. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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