CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
154 Canada (Nunavut) 60.11.08 N -- 100.31.25 W Poorfish Lake; Prospecting Permit 132; Nueltin Project Cu; Au; Ag
 
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): Poorfish Lake; Prospecting Permit 132; Nueltin Project
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut
NTS map data: 065C02 (Charlie Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; zones of dissem sulphides in sedimentary rocks
Geologic province: Churchill
Commodities: Cu; Au; Ag
Geological ages: Aphebian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:phyllite
greywacke
dolomite
dolomite (minor)
Host rock stratigraphy:Hurwitz Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) zones of dissem sulphides in sedimentary rocks; two zones 10-15 ft wide and 82 & 78 ft long; lithologies given form the oldest unit of the hurwitz group
References:
Kirkham, R. V., 1974
A Synopsis of Canadian Stratiform Copper Deposits in Sedimentary Sequences
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 367 - 382

Laporte, P. J., 1974
Mineral Industry Report 1969 and 1970, Northwest Territories, East of 104 Degrees
Mineral Industry Report, North of 60, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Publication code EGS 1974-1

Wright, G. M., 1967
Geology of the Southeastern Barren Grounds, Parts of the Districts of Mackenzie and Keewatin (Operations Keewatin Baker Thelon)
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 350, 91 p., 2 maps.


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