CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
708 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.49.10 N -- 063.41.03 W Chisholm Brook; W. A. McPhersons Mine Cu; U
 
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): Chisholm Brook; W. A. McPhersons Mine
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E13 (Pugwash)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; slphds assoc with plant remains in arkosic sandst
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; U
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (arkosic sandstone)
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) slphds assoc with plant remains in arkosic sandst; 4 or 5 tons of ore shipped in 1900
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

Brummer, J. J., 1958
Supergene Copper-Uranium Deposits in Northern Nova Scotia
Economic Geology, Volume 53, p. 309 - 324

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.

Messervey, J. P., 1929
Copper in Nova Scotia
Pamphlet, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 7, 40 p.

Messervey, J. P.; Goudge, M. G., 1940
Report on the Metalliferous Mines
in Annual Report on Mines, Edited by Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Annual Report, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, 1940, 158 p, p. 62 - 62

Shumway, G., 1951
Sedimentary Copper, Tatamagouche Area, Nova Scotia
M.Sc. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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