CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
798 Canada (Ontario) 46.21.33 N -- 083.58.00 W Desbarats 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): Desbarats
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 041J05 (Bruce Mines)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; slphds disseminated in pink lorrain quartzite
Geologic province: Southern
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite
Individual lithologies:quartzite (pink and purple)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Lorrain Formation, Cobalt Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) slphds disseminated in pink Lorrain quartzite; several showings/ possibility of widespread low grade mineralization; mineralized quartzite is hematitic/feldspathic/slightly radioactive
References:
Anonymous
Resident Geologist Files, SSM-1-2-3
Resident Geologist Files, Ontario Department of Mines, Publication code SSM-1-2-3

Frarey, M. J., 1977
Geology of the Huronian Belt Between Sault Ste. Marie and Blind River, Ontario
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 383, 87 p.

Pearson, W. N., 1979
Copper Metallogeny North Shore Region of Lake Huron
in Current Research 1979, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 79-1A, 407 p, p. 289 - 304

Shklanka, R., 1969
Copper, Nickel, Lead and Zinc Deposits of Ontario
Mineral Resources Circular, Ontario Department of Mines, Publication code 12, 394 p.


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