Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Brodeur Peninsula |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Nunavut |
NTS map data: |
048C14 (Sargent Point) 048C15 |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; in stratified breccias with high vuggy porosity |
Geologic province: |
Arctic Platform |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Niagaran (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; carbonateInternal host rock structures: | breccia | Individual lithologies: | dolomite (microcrystalline) limestone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Cape Crauford Formation, Member A, Assemblage 3 |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in stratified breccias with high vuggy porosity; localy traces of malachite occur/ bituminous matter invariably present; breccias formed by solution of originally interlaminated evaporites |
References: |
Trettin, H. P., 1969 |
Lower Palaeozoic Sediments of Northwestern Baffin Island, District of Franklin |
Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 157 |
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