CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
505 Canada (Northwest Territories) 65.23.50 N -- 117.07.50 W Tommie Lake North Zone Cu; U; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Tommie Lake North Zone
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife
NTS map data: 086F06 (Lever Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: magnetite beds in tuff; thin to thick beds and lenses of massive magnetite interbedded with mainly felsic tuffs with lenses rich in mafic silicates; the tuff unit is 30 m thick between rhyolite below and andesite above
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Deposit object located: main trenched area
Commodities: Cu; U; Fe
Geological ages: Early Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; unclassified volcanic rocks
References:
Gandhi, S. S.; Prasad, N., 1997
Stratabound and Vein-Type Magnetite-Pyrite-Chalcopyrite in Rhyodacite - Andesite Sequence, Tommie Lake Prospects, Central Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1997, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1997-C, 254 p, p. 1 - 14


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