CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
766 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.40.25 N -- 063.13.30 W Balfron 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): Balfron
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E11 (Tatamagouche)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone
References:
Anonymous
Assessment File (11 E 11d, 13-D-45)
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 E 11d

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

Barss, M. S.; Howie, R. D., 1975
Upper Paleozoic Rocks of the Atlantic Provinces, Gulf of St Lawrence and Adjacent Continental Shelf
in Report of Activities 1975, Edited by Pelletier, B. R., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 74-30, V2, 258 p, p. 35 - 50

Brummer, J. J., 1958
Supergene Copper-Uranium Deposits in Northern Nova Scotia
Economic Geology, Volume 53, p. 309 - 324

Gross, G. A., 1957
Uranium Deposits in Gaspe, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 57-2, 27 p.

Little, H. W.; Durham, C. C., 1971
Uranium in Stream Sediments in Carboniferous Rocks of Nova Scotia
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 70-54, 17 p., 1 maps.

Shumway, G., 1951
Sedimentary Copper, Tatamagouche Area, Nova Scotia
M.Sc. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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