CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
648 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.33.58 N -- 061.21.17 W Steep Creek 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): Steep Creek
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011F11 (Port Hawkesbury)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in limestone + clastic rocks (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; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in limestone + clastic rocks (Windsor-Horton contact)
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., 1975
Copper Occurrences in Lower Carboniferous Sedimentary Rocks of the Maritime Provinces
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 281, 156 p.


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