CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
604 Kalaallit Nunaat (East) 71.04 N -- 022.27.24 W Jameson Land; Graklint Beds Pb; Zn; 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): Jameson Land; Graklint Beds
Political location(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Province or state: East
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in lagoonal mudstone and barrier beach calcarenite
Geologic province: Caledonian Fold Belt
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Cu
Geological ages: Middle Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone (dark grey-black)
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Gipsdalen Formation, Graklint Beds
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in lagoonal mudstone & barrier beach calcarenite; possibly Mississippi Valley type mineralization; Pb/Cu minerals found near top of bioherms as mm-decim thick veinlets
References:
Clemmensen, L. B., 1980
Triassic Rift Sedimentation and Palaeogeography of Central East Greenland
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 136, 72 p.

Thomassen, B., 1982
Stratabound Copper-Lead-Zinc Mineralisation in the Permo-Triassic of Central East Greenland
Bulletin, Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse, Publication code 143, 42 p.


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