CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
737 Canada (Northwest Territories) 62.30.47 N -- 126.12.44 W Thundercloud Range 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): Thundercloud Range
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 095L09 (Mount Berg)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; malachite along contact of rapitan gp/whitaker fm
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:mudstone
siltstone
conglomerate
sandstone
dolomite
limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Rapitan Group, Whittaker Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) malachite along contact of Rapitan gp/Whitaker fm; Cu likely assoc with Rapitan gp/Whittaker fm Ordovician-Silurian age
References:
Gabrielse, H., 1973
Geology of Flat River, Glacier Lake, and Wrigley Lake Map-Areas, District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 366, Part , 421 p.


Generated 2015-01-27 17:14:46 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
GlobalDB System, Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada