CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
152 Canada (Northwest Territories) 65.19 N -- 131.42 W Tawu Anticline 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): Tawu Anticline
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 106G05
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in very thin sandstone beds
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Tsezotene Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in very thin sandstone beds; minerals are malachite and azurite
References:
Aitken, J. D.; Cook, D. G.; Yorath, C. J., 1982
Upper Ramparts River (106G) and Sans Sault Rapids (106H) Map Areas, District of Mackenzie
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 388, 48 p.


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