CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
895 Canada (Ontario) 46.36 N -- 082.46 W Flack Lake Area 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): Flack Lake Area
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario; Subprovince or locality: Flaock Lake Fault - north of
NTS map data: 041J10 (Rawhide Lake)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in basal beds of the gordon lake formation
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Paleoaphebian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltstone
quartz arenite
Host rock stratigraphy:Gordon Lake Formation, Cobalt Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in basal beds of the Gordon Lake formation; sparse sabkha-related Cu lies at boundary between Lorrain & Gordon Lake fms
References:
Chandler, F. W., 1986
Sedimentology and Paleoclimatology of the Huronian, Lorrain and Gordon Lake Formations and their Bearing on Models for Sedimentary Cu Mineralization
in Current Research, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 86-1A, 386 p, p. 121 - 132


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