CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
837 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.49 N -- 127.43 W Hutch East; Keele River - Backbone Projects 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): Hutch East; Keele River - Backbone Projects
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 095M13 (Vanishing Ram Creek)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; dissem and filling fenestrae in dolostone
Geologic province: Cordilleran Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; siltstone
Internal host rock structures:cryptalgal laminations
Individual lithologies:siltstone (cryptalgal laminites)
Host rock stratigraphy:Coppercap Formation, Mackenzie Mtns Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) dissem & filling fenestrae in dolostone
References:
Ruelle, J. C. L., 1982
Depositional Environments and Genesis of Stratiform Copper Deposits of the Redstone Copper Belt, Mackenzie Mountains, N. W. T.
in Precambrian Sulphide Deposits, Robinson Volume, Edited by Hutchinson, R. W.; Spence, C. D.; Franklin, J. M., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 25, 791 p, p. 701 - 737


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