CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
767 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.41.40 N -- 063.17 W Woodlock Brook Prospect; Mccullough Prospect Cu; U
 
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): Woodlock Brook Prospect; Mccullough Prospect
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; thin layers and nodules in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; U
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) thin layers & nodules in sandstone; radioactive coaly material found in some chalcocite
References:
Anonymous
Assessment File (11 E 11c, 13-D-45), Copper Colchester Co , Tatamagouche
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 E 11c

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

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

Cole, E. J.; Grant, R. I., 1951
Report on the Metalliferous Mines
in Annual Report on Mines, Edited by Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Annual Report, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, 1951 , 192 p, p. 53 - 56

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.

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


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