CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
734 Canada (Yukon Territory) 64.47.00 N -- 133.55.52 W Gillespie Lake Cu; Zn; Pb
 
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): Gillespie Lake
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Yukon Territory
NTS map data: 106C13 (Fairchild Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in dolosiltstone
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Zn; Pb
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; siltstone
Individual lithologies:dolosiltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Gillespie Lake Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in dolosiltstone; numerous minor showings in Gillespie Lake area; Cu as coating on fracture surfaces intersecting laminated stromatolite
References:
Goodfellow, W. D., 1979
Geochemistry of Copper Lead and Zinc Mineralization in Proterozoic Rocks near Gillespie Lake, Yukon
in Current Research 1979, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 79-1A, 407 p, p. 333 - 348


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