CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
901 Canada (Quebec) 56.19 N -- 076.25 W Richmond Gulf - 4; Lac Guillaume - Delisle (4) 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): Richmond Gulf - 4; Lac Guillaume - Delisle (4)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Quebec
NTS map data: 034C08 (Lac Persillon)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in sandstone
Geologic province: Churchill
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoaphebian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Qingaalik Formation, Richmond Gulf Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in sandstone; malachite stains fractures in bleached zone of Qingaaluk formation
References:
Chandler, F. W., 1984
Metallogenesis of an Early Proterozoic Foreland Sequence, Eastern Hudson Bay, Canada
Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 141, p. 3 - 15

Jowett, E.C., 1989
Effects of Continental Rifting on the Location and Genesis of Stratiform Copper-silver Deposits
Section Introduction, General Principles and Geochemical Aspects, in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 53 - 66


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