CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
902 Canada (Northwest Territories) 62.40.05 N -- 126.38 W Thundercloud Creek 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): Thundercloud Creek
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Creek Mouth (16 km N)
NTS map data: 095L10 (Coppercap Mountain)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; in rocks of the redstone river formation
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (slaty - pink)
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Redstone River Formation

(2) sedimentary; evaporite
Individual lithologies:gypsum
Host rock stratigraphy:Redstone River Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in rocks of the Redstone River formation
References:
Gabrielse, H., 1973
Geology of Flat River, Glacier Lake, and Wrigley Lake Map-Areas, District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 366, Part , 421 p.


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