CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
782 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.40.38 N -- 063.12.37 W Black River; Black Brook Cu; U
 
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): Black River; Black Brook
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E11 (Tatamagouche)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; slphds assoc with plant remains in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu; U
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) slphds assoc with plant remains in sandstone; 240 tons of ore avg 3.35% Cu was shipped 1907-1908
References:
Anonymous
Assessment File (11 E 11c, 13-D-45), Tatamagouche
Assessment File, Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Publication code 11 E 11c

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

Brummer, J. J., 1958
Supergene Copper-Uranium Deposits in Northern Nova Scotia
Economic Geology, Volume 53, p. 309 - 324

Ellis, R. W., 1904
Bulletin on the Ores of Copper in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec
Publication, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 882, 392 p.

Gross, G. A., 1957
Uranium Deposits in Gaspe, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 57-2, 27 p.

Shumway, G., 1951
Sedimentary Copper, Tatamagouche Area, Nova Scotia
M.Sc. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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