CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
976 Canada (Nunavut) 65.20.00 N -- 097.55 W Amer Group U; Cu; Pb; Zn
 
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): Amer Group
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Nearest community: Baker Lake
NTS map data: 066H05
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated, complex intergrowth of pitchblende, coffinite and ti-u phase; martinized magnetite is ubiquitous; sulphides include chalcopyrite, trace bornite and chalcocite hosted in sedimentary rocks
Geologic province: Churchill Structural Province
Commodities: U; Cu; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem. complex intergrowth pitchblende, coffinite & Ti-U phase;martinized magnetite ubiquitous;sulphides incl. chalcopyrite, tr bornite & chalcocite hosted in sedimentary rx;U & Cu-bearing sandstone-siltstone cherry red to brown; minlzn follows bedding
References:
Miller, A. R., 1996
Stratabound and Stratiform Sediment-Hosted Uranium-Copper Prospects in the Paleoproterozoic Amer Group, Churchill Structural Province, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1996, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1996-C, 205 p, p. 49 - 62


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