CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
801 Canada (New Brunswick) 47.42.16 N -- 065.51.56 W Beresford Fe; Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Beresford
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: New Brunswick; Nearest community: Bathurst (18 km 300°)
NTS map data: 021P12 (Bathurst)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit status: prospect; Size category: 0.6 Mt
Geologic province: Appalachian
Geologic subprovince: Tobique-Chaleur Belt
Geologic district: Nigadoo River Synclinorium
Deposit object located: centre-deposit on surface
Commodities: Fe; Cu
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) Discovered in 1952 by soil geochemical and geophysical surveys; diamond drilling in early 1960s indicated resources of 616 000 tonnes avaraging 1.18 % Cu, including 220 000 tonnes averaging 1.75 % Cu.
Links to other databases: New Brunswick MINFILE; Key value: 125
New Brunswick MINFILE; Key value: 920
References:
Davies, J. L.; Tupper, W. M.; Bachinski, D.; Boyle, R. W.; Martin, F., 1969
Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Nigadoo River-Millstream River Area, Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, Publication code 67-49, 70 p., 5 maps.

Lentz, D. R.; Walker, J. A.; Stirling, J. A. R., 1995
Millstream Cu-Fe Skarn Deposit: An Example of a Cu-bearing Magnetite-rich Skarn System in Northern New Brunswick
Exploration and Mining Geology, Volume 4, p. 15 - 31

Walker, J.; Gower, S.; McCutcheon, S. R., 1991
Antinouri-Nicolas Project, Gloucester and Restigouche Counties, Northern New Brunswick (C-NBCAMD)
in Project Summaries for 1991, Sixteenth Annual Review of Acivities, Edited by Abbott, S. A., Mineral Resources Circular, Review of Activities, New Brunswick Natural Resources and Energy, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy, 912, p. 87 - 100


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