CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
885 Canada (Northwest Territories) 66.29.56 N -- 116.12 W Dumas Lake Cu; Ag; Pb; U
 
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): Dumas Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 086K08 (Adam Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated in quartz wacke/lithic wacke/conglom
Geologic province: Bear
Commodities: Cu; Ag; Pb; U
Geological ages: Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:quartz wacke
mudstone (maroon)
lithic wacke
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Dumas Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in quartz wacke/lithic wacke/conglom; hosted by 2 discrete sedimentary horizons in s & n limbs of anticline; host rocks represent lacustrine & fluvial red bed sequence
References:
Gosse, M.; Sawiuk, M., 1986
Sediment-Hosted Stratabound Copper Mineralization in the Early Proterozoic Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Royal School of Mines Journal, Volume 36, p. 13 - 18


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