CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
605 Kalaallit Nunaat (East) 71.40.11 N -- 022.15.39 W Canning Land 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): Canning Land
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in green intercalations of red carbonaceous shale
Geologic province: Caledonian Fold Belt
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:shale (calcareous and dolomitic)
limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Eleonore Bay Group, Qtzite and Multicolored Series
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green intercalations of red carbonaceous shale; Cu sulphides occur as fine-grained disseminations & locally as blebs
References:
Harpoth, O.; Pedersen, J. L.; Schonwandt, H. K.; Thomassen, B., 1986
The Mineral Occurrences of Central East Greenland
Meddelelser om Gronland, Geoscience, Volume 17, p. 1 - 139


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