CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
786 Canada (Quebec) 51.03.02 N -- 065.16.16 W Josette Prospect Cu; Y; Ce; Fe; Ag; Th; U; W; Mo; Au; Nd; La; F
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Josette Prospect
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Quebec; Nearest community: Sept-Îles
NTS map data: 022P03 (Lac A L'aigle)
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit (sub) types: massive to layered magnetite replacement in porphyritic quartzofeldspathic gneiss; later folded, brecciated and overprinted by chalcopyrite, pyrite, garnet, fluorite, apatite and REE-bearing minerals; Reference: Chartrand, F. M.; Roy, I.; Cayer, A.; Gauthier, M., 2003: The Kwyjibo polymetallic iron oxide deposit, northeastern Grenville Province, Quebec; Section Abstracts, in Canadian Institute of Mining, 105th Annual General Meeting, Edited by Anonymous, Program with Abstracts, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, p. 194 - 194
Deposit status: showing; Size category: very small
Geologic province: Grenville Province
Geologic subprovince: Domaine de Lac à l’Aigle
Geologic district: Manitou
Commodities: Cu; Y; Ce; Fe; Ag; Th; U; W; Mo; Au; Nd; La; F
Mineralization styles: tabular body
Geological ages: Early Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Late Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal basin-back-arc; divergent; Formal name: Canatiche Complex (host rocks)
Coincident features: intrusive contact; Coincident feature name: Canatiche Complex
Host rocks: (1) metasomatic-hydrothermal; unclassified metasomatic rocks; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:magnetitite

(2) intrusive; unclassified granitoid rocks (magnetitized); Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:leucogranite
Host rock stratigraphy:Canatiche Complex

(3) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (magnetitized); Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:metarhyolite (porphyroidal)
Host rock stratigraphy:Canatiche Complex

(4) metasomatic-hydrothermal; unclassified metasomatic rocks; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:calc-silicate
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-U-Th-Cu-Ag-REE
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, specularite
Radiometric ages: Object dated: Host Rocks; Age - Ma: 1,175; +4; -4; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: unknown; Source rock: leucogranite; Event dated: host rock; Reference: Wodicka, N.; David, J.; Parent, M.; Gobeil, A.; Verpaelst, P., 2003: Géochronologie U-Pb et Pb-Pb de la région de Sept-Îles - Natashquan, Province de Grenville, Moyenne-Côte-Nord; in Géologie et ressources minérales de la partie est de la Province de Grenville, Edited by Brisebois, D.; Clark, T., DV, Ministère des Ressources naturelles, de la Faune et des Parcs, Québec, 2002-03, 419 p, p. 59 - 118

Object dated: Metallic Signature; Age - Ma: 972; +5; -5; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: titanite; Source rock: ore zone; Event dated: mineralization
Deposit shape: tabular
Deposit dimensions:length: 3.5 kilometres
width: 250 metres
thickness: 10 metres
Qualified comments: (Applies to: mineralization) 1.83% Cu, 0.96% La+Ce+Sm, 654 ppm Th, 435 ppm U and 164 ppb Au over 9.5 m (channel sample); 0.36% Cu over 16.5 m and 0.88% La+Ce+Sm over 29.9 m (drill core). 2,8% Cu, 900 ppm Th, 440 ppm U, 1800 ppm W and 1.3 g/t Ag (grab sample)(Clark, 2003); between 1 and 1.7 % total REE and 5700 and 8100 ppm Y (grab samples).
References:
Brisebois, D.; Clark, T. Editor(s)), 2003
Géologie et ressources minérales de la partie est de la Province de Grenville
DV, Ministère des Ressources naturelles, de la Faune et des Parcs, Québec, 2002-03, 419 p.

Clark, T., 2003
Métallogénie des métaux usuels et précieux, des éléments radioactifs et des éléments des terres rares, région de la moyenne Côte-Nord
in Géologie et ressources minérales de la partie est de la Province de Grenville, Edited by Brisebois, D.; Clark, T., DV, Ministère des Ressources naturelles, de la Faune et des Parcs, Québec, 2002-03, 419 p, p. 270 - 308

MRNFP, 2001
Fiches de gîtes Josette, Malachite, Andradite, Fluorine, Grabuge, Lingis, Livaivre, NTS, 22P03
SIGEOM databank, e-sigeom à la carte/gisement métallique, Internet

MRNFP, 2003
Fiche de gîtes Rodrigue, Josette, Malachite, Andradite, Fluorine, Grabuge, Lingis, Lavavivre
SIGEOM databank, e-sigeom à la carte/gisement métallique, Internet

Roy, I., 1999
Projet Kwyjibo 1088-2. Rapport sur les travaux d’exploration, campagne 1998
GM, Ministère des Ressources naturelles, Québec, Publication code 58046

Associated group(s): Kwygibo (25)

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