CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
860 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 48.34.07 N -- 058.48.51 W Boswarlos (Port au Port Peninsula) Pb; Zn; Cu; Sr; Ba
 
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): Boswarlos (Port au Port Peninsula)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador
NTS map data: 012B10 (Stephenville)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in limestone
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Cu; Sr; Ba
Geological ages: Mississippian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone
Individual lithologies:limestone (fossiliferous buff)
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Codroy Group (equivalent To Windsor Group)

(2) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:gypsum
Host rock stratigraphy:Codroy Group (equivalent To Windsor Group)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in limestone; mineralization occurs along outcrop 0.3 km long near shore of Costa Bay
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

Kirkham, R. V., 1985
Base Metals in Upper Windsor (Codroy) Group Oolitic and Stromatolitic Limestones in the Atlantic Provinces
in Current Research 1985, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 85-1A, 802 p, p. 573 - 585


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