CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
490 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.46.51 N -- 116.53.56 W Mar prospect Cu; Fe; U
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Mar prospect
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife (180 km 315)
NTS map data: 085N15 (Ketcheson Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Geologic district: Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Deposit object located: centre-deposit on surface
Commodities: Cu; Fe; U
Geological ages: Early Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
References:
Cook, F. A.; van der Velden, A. J.; Hall, K. W.; Roberts, B. J., 1999
Frozen subduction in Canada's Northwest Territories; Lithoprobe deep lithospheric reflection profiling of the western Canadian Shield
Tectonics, Volume 18, p. 1 - 24

Gandhi, S. S., 1989
Rhyodacite Ignimbrites and Breccias of the Sue-Dianne and Mar Cu-Fe-U Deposits, Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1989, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper , Geological Survey of Canada, 1989-C, p. 263 - 273

Gandhi, S. S., 1992
Magnetite-Rich Breccia of the Mar Deposit and Veins of the Nod Prospect, Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1992, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1992-1C, p. 237 - 249

Gandhi, S. S., 1994
Geological Setting and Genetic Aspects of Mineral Occurrences in the Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Studies of Rare-Metal Deposits in the Northwest Territories, Edited by Sinclair, W. D.; Richardson, D. G., Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, 475, 96 p, p. 63 - 96

Gandhi, S. S.; Mortensen, J. K.; Prasad, N.; van Breemen, O., 2001
Magmatic evolution of the southern Great Bear continental arc, northwestern Canadian Shield: geochronological constraints
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 38, p. 767 - 785

Hetu, R. J.; Holman, P. B.; Charbonneau, B. W.; Prasad, N.; Gandhi, S. S., 1994
Multiparameter Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Mazenod Lake Area, Northwest Territories, 1993 (NTS 85N/10 and Parts of 85N/11, 14, 15): Scale 1:100000
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 2806, 100 p., 12 maps.


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