CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
868 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.33 N -- 062.51 W Limerock Cu; Pb
 
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): Limerock
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia; Nearest community: Limerock
NTS map data: 011E10 (New Glasgow)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; dissem in black fossiliferous limestone
Commodities: Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Individual lithologies:limestone (dark grey fenestral)
limestone (black fossiliferous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem in black fossiliferous limestone
References:
Barosh, P. J., 1992
Paleozoic Rifting in New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, USA and Canada
in Basement Tectonics 10: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Duluth, Minnesota, USA, August, 1992, Edited by Ojakangas, R. W.; Dickas, A. B.; Green, J. C., Proceedings, Tenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 450 p, p. 73 - 106

Kirkham, R. V., 1985
Base Metals in Upper Windsor (Codroy) Group Oolitic and Stromatolitic Limestones in the Atlantic Provinces
in Current Research 1985, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 85-1A, 802 p, p. 573 - 585


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