CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
971 Canada (Quebec) 45.28.00 N -- 072.12 W Shefford 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): Shefford
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Quebec
NTS map data: 031H08 (Mont Orford)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; stratabound chalcopyrite-bornite-chalcocite disseminations and stockworks
Geologic province: Estrie-Beauce Regions
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) stratabound chalcopyrite-bornite-chalcocite disseminations and stockworks; strata-bound copper in metagreywacke and dolomitic marble
References:
Gauthier, M.; Chartrand, F.; Trottier, J., 1994
Metallogenic Epochs and Metallogenic Provinces of the Estrie-Beauce Region, Southern Quebec Appalachians
Economic Geology, Volume 89, p. 1322 - 1360


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