CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
405 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 58.44.20 N -- 063.06.52 W Ramah (Blow - Me - Down Mountain) 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): Ramah (Blow - Me - Down Mountain)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador; Nearest community: Blow-Me-Down Mountain
NTS map data: 014L11 (Jens Haven Island)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; minor chalcopyrite in sedimentary pyritic unit
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neohelikian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:slate
quartzite
arkose
conglomerate
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Ramah Group

(2) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist
Individual lithologies:mica schist
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) minor chalcopyrite in sedimentary pyritic unit
References:
Kirkham, R. V., 1985
Personal Communication, Geological Survey of Canada
Morgan, W. C., 1975
Geology of the Precambrian Ramah Group and Basement Rocks in the Nachvak Fiord-Saglek Fiord Area, North Labrador
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 74-54, 42 p., 1 maps.


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