CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
641 Canada (Nova Scotia) 46.04.30 N -- 060.46.00 W Washabuck - Crow Point Cu; Au; Ag; Pb
 
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): Washabuck - Crow Point
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011K02 (Baddeck)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in conglomerate
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Au; Ag; Pb
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Horton Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in conglomerate
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

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.

How, H., 1869
Mineralogy of Nova Scotia
Report to the Provincial Government, Provincial Government of Nova Scotia, 217 p.

Kelley, D. G., 1967
Baddeck and Whycocomach Map-Areas: with Emphasis on Mississippian Stratigraphy of Central Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 351, 65 p.

Ryan, P. C.; Buckley, S., 1993
Sedimentation, Stratabound Cu-Ag Mineralization and Syndepositional Tectonics in the Revett Formation, Flathead Indian Reservation, Western Montana
in Belt Symposium III, Edited by Berg, R. B., Special Publication, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 112, 295 p, p. 278 - 289


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