CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1264 Canada (Nunavut) 72.16.05 N -- 109.40.30 W Aj 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): Aj
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Victoria Island
NTS map data: 078B07
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed
Geologic province: Minto Inlier
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) carbonaceous, pyritic crosslaminated quartz arenite with interbeds of fine-grained sandstone and siltstone
References:
Rainbird, R. H.; Hodgson, D. A.; Jefferson, C. W., 1995
Bedrock and Surficial Geology, Muskox Lake, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories (NTS 78 B/2)
Geological Survey of Canada, OF 3035, Scale 1:50000

Rainbird, R. H.; Jefferson, C. W.; Young, G. M., 1996
The Early Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Succession B of Northwestern Laurentia: Correlations and Paleographic Significance
Geological Society of America Bulletin, Volume 108, p. 454 - 470


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