CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
726 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.41.43 N -- 063.10.10 W Biz Brook U; 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): Biz Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E11 (Tatamagouche)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; u with plant debris in grey-green fluviatile sst.
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: U; Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) U with plant debris in grey-green fluviatile sst.
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

Dunsmore, H. E., 1977
A New Genetic Model for Uranium-Copper Mineralization, Permo-Carboniferous Basin, Northern Nova Scotia
in Report of Activities, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 77-1B, 350 p, p. 247 - 253


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