CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
148 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.25.20 N -- 123.13.30 W Cap 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): Cap Mountain
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 095O06 (Mount Kindle)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; fracs/diss/bed planes in ss/dolo/siltstone/mudston
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Helikian - Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltstone (dolomitic)
mudstone (hematitic)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) fracs/diss/bed planes in ss/dolo/siltstone/mudston; traces of Cu mineralization occur throughtout 3500-foot thick strata; malachite-from 1200ft below map unit 1 to 650 ft above base map unit 3
References:
Aitken, J. D.; Macqueen, R. W.; Foscolos, A. E., 1973
A Proterozoic Sedimentary Succession with Traces of Copper Mineralization Cap Mountain, Southern Franklin Mountains, District of Mackenzie
in Report of Activities 1973, Edited by Blackadar, R. G., Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 73-1A, 297 p, p. 243 - 246

Douglas, R. J., 1963
Dahadinni and Wrigley Map-Areas, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 62-33, 34 p.


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