CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
896 Canada (Nunavut) 73.48 N -- 086.00 W Brodeur Peninsula 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): Brodeur Peninsula
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut
NTS map data: 048C14 (Sargent Point)
048C15
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in stratified breccias with high vuggy porosity
Geologic province: Arctic Platform
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Niagaran (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Internal host rock structures:breccia
Individual lithologies:dolomite (microcrystalline)
limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Cape Crauford Formation, Member A, Assemblage 3
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in stratified breccias with high vuggy porosity; localy traces of malachite occur/ bituminous matter invariably present; breccias formed by solution of originally interlaminated evaporites
References:
Trettin, H. P., 1969
Lower Palaeozoic Sediments of Northwestern Baffin Island, District of Franklin
Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 157


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