CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
975 Canada (Nunavut) 81.15.00 N -- 088.15 W Hvitland 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): Hvitland
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Ellesmere Island
NTS map data: 560D08
560D01
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; replacement cu sulphides in shelf carbonates
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Paleozoic - Late Permian (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) replacement Cu sulphides in shelf carbonates; two localities: 1) in bivalve coquina of the upper Paleozoic Nansen formation; 2) in grainstone of upper Permian Degerbols formation
References:
Harrison, J. C.; De Freitas, T., 1996
New Showings and New Geological Settings for Mineral Exploration in the Arctic Islands
in Current Research 1996, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1996-B, 93 p, p. 81 - 91


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