CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
699 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.50.46 N -- 061.55.06 W Ballantynes Cove 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): Ballantynes Cove
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011F13 (Cape George)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; at limestone - conglomerate contact
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Devonian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Mcaras Brook Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) at limestone - conglomerate contact
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

Binney, W. P., 1975
Copper Occurrences in Lower Carboniferous Sedimentary Rocks of the Maritime Provinces
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 281, 156 p.

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.


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