CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
717 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.30.33 N -- 062.04.39 W Ohio; Maclean Showing Cu; 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): Ohio; Maclean Showing
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E09 (Merigomish)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; disseminated in limestone (windsor-horton cont)
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:limestone
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in limestone (Windsor-Horton contact); Cu/Pb occur erratically dissem in conglomerate interlayered with limestone; limestone sequence may be marginal basin beds from higher in the windsor gr
References:
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

Binney, W. P.; Kirkham, R. V., 1974
A Study of Copper Mineralization in Mississippian Rocks of Nova Scotia
in Report of Activities 1974, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 74-1A, 396 p, p. 129 - 130

Boehner, R. C., 1982
Geological Map of the Antigonish Basin, Nova Scotia
Joint - Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy, Canada Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Scale 50000

Ponsford, M., 1984
Metallic Mineral Occurrences Map and Data Compilation Central Nova Scotia, Map Sheets 11D and 11E
Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy, OF 599


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