CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
866 Canada (Nova Scotia) 46.04.17 N -- 060.23.10 W Coxheath - Contact Zone 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): Coxheath - Contact Zone
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011K01 (Sydney)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in grey conglomerate along windsor-horton contact
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate (grey)
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group, Grantmire Formation, Horton Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in grey conglomerate along windsor-horton contact; Cu occurs in several outcrops of conglomerate along 7.5 miles strike; conglomerate has calcareous to limestone matrix
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

Oldale, H. R., 1967
A Centennial of Mining Exploration and Development: Coxheath Hills, Cape Breton
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions, Section B: Applied E.S., Volume 70, p. 314 - 322


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