CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
409 Kalaallit Nunaat (East) 72.44.20 N -- 025.34 W Lyells Land (Kap Alfred) 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): Lyells Land (Kap Alfred)
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in green shale and quartzite
Geologic province: Caledonian Fold Belt
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:shale (quartzitic)
shale
limestone
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Eleonore Bay Group, Qtzite and Multicolored Series
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green shale and quartzite; 2 occurrences 3 km apart at N end of Lyells Land-south of Kempes Fjord
References:
Ghisler, M., 1980
Stratabound Copper Mineralization in Late Precambrian of the East Greenland Caledonides
in European Copper Deposits : Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Bor, Yugoslavia, September 18- 22, 1979, Edited by Jankovic, S.; Sillitoe, R. H., Special Publication, Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 60, Department of Economic Geology, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Belgrade University, 1, 300 p, p. 160 - 165

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

Stendal, H., 1980
Distribution of Metals and Heavy Minerals in Drainage Sediments in Late Precambrian Rocks of Central East Greenland
Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse, Rapport, Volume 57, p. 99 - 111

Stendal, H., 1984
Strata-Bound Copper Sulfide and Non Strata-Bound Arsenopyrite and Base Metal Mineralization in the Caledonides of East Greenland: a Review
Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 1574 - 1584


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