CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
861 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.49.06 N -- 063.45.15 W Rockley 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): Rockley
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E13 (Pugwash)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
siltstone
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Pictou Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone
References:
Anonymous, 1982
Esso Minerals Canada, Company Files
Company Files, Esso Minerals Canada

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


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