CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
741 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.49.00 N -- 128.12.00 W Nite Cu; 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): Nite
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 105P16
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; veinlets and dissem in dolomitic units in limestone
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Coppercap Formation, Mackenzie Mts Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) veinlets & dissem in dolomitic units in limestone; 7 zones over a 2000 ft stratigraphic interval
References:
Anonymous, 1973
Welcome North Ml
in Canadian Mines Handbook 1973-1974, Edited by Northern Miner, Northern Miner Press, Toronto, 432 p, p. 349 - 350

Anonymous, 1974
Welcome North Mines in Joint Ventures on Base Metal Shows
The Northern Miner, Feb. 21 issue, p. 32

Blusson, S. L., 1971
Sekwi Mountain Map-Area, Yukon Territory and District of Mackenzie
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 71-22, 17 p.

Helmstaedt, H., 1979
Copper Mineralization near an Intra-Rapitan Unconformity, Nite Copper Prospect, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 16, p. 50 - 59

Padgham, W. A., 1976
Mineral Industry Report 1973
Mineral Industry Report, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Publication code EGS 1976-9


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