CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
862 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.48.00 N -- 063.40.00 W Canfield Dome Cu; Ag
 
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): Canfield Dome
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E13 (Pugwash)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-foreland; transpressive (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
siltstone
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Canfield Creek Formation, Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone
References:
Anonymous, 1982
Esso Minerals Canada, Company Files
Company Files, Esso Minerals Canada

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

Chandler, F. W., 1997
The Canfield Creek Copper Deposit, Nova Scotia - A Late Carboniferous Cupriferous Bog Deposit: Implications for Exploration for Redbed Copper in Caboniferous Clastics in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
in Current Research 1997-D, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1997-D, 71 p, p. 35 - 42

Resource data:
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300,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource - limited ddh
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.2 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1982: Personal Communication - Company Official
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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