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): |
Wegener Halvo |
Political location(s): |
Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; as thick veinlets and breccia-fillings with gangue |
Geologic province: |
Caledonian Fold Belt |
Commodities: |
Cu; Pb |
Geological ages: |
Late Permian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; carbonateInternal host rock structures: | bioherms | Individual lithologies: | limestone dolomite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Foldvik Creek Formation, limestone-dolomite member |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as thick veinlets & breccia-fillings with gangue; sulphides occur scattered over the whole peninsula; Pb/Cu minerals found near top of bioherms as mm-decim thick veinlets |
References: |
Thomassen, B., 1982 |
Stratabound Copper-Lead-Zinc Mineralisation in the Permo-Triassic of Central East Greenland |
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 143, 42 p. |
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