CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
757 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.35.50 N -- 061.38.45 W Monastery; Meadows Brook Pb; 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): Monastery; Meadows Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011F12 (Antigonish)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in small fractures in sandstone and limestone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Pb; Cu
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in small fractures in sandstone & limestone
References:
Anonymous
Assessment File (11 F 12 a, 27-B-18)
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 F 12 a

Anonymous
Assessment File (11 F 12a, 07-B-34), Base Metals, Meadows Brook, Antigonish County
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 F 12a

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

Benson, D. G., 1970
Notes to Accompany Geological Map of Antigonish and Cape George Map-Areas, Nova Scotia
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 70-8, 2 p.


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