CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
515 Canada (Northwest Territories) 66.01.46 N -- 117.58.43 W Glacier Bay Copper Showing Fe; Cu; Au; Ag; Co; Bi; As
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Glacier Bay Copper Showing
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife (450 km NNW)
NTS map data: 086K04 (Vance Peninsula)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit (sub) types: veins; very coarse magnetite-sulphides-calcite aggregate 40 x 25 cm in area, occurs in a gently curving northwest-trending vein where a subsidiary vein branches off to the NNW; hosted by massive andesite
veins; a shallow trench on the coarse aggregate shows crystals of magnetite up to 5 cm long, of pyrite 2 cm to a side, chalcopyrite aggregates up to 6 cm long; notable amounts of Au, Ag and Co occur with Cu
Deposit status: showing; Size category: very small; Status comments: an old showing located on the north shore of Glacier Bay, 5 km southwest of aircraft landing strip near Port Radium; restaked by Kalvik Mining Services Ltd. in 1996; old trenches mapped and resampled
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Deposit object located: main trench
Commodities: Fe; Cu; Au; Ag; Co; Bi; As
Mineralization styles: breccia-fillings; veins
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks (porphyritic andesite); Metamorphic grade: none
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-Cu-Au-Ag-Co
References:
Hildebrand, R. S., 1986
Kiruna-Type Deposits - their Origin and Relationship to Intermediate Subvolcanic Plutons in the Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Canada
Economic Geology, Volume 81, p. 640 - 659

Reardon, N. C., 1989
The Mystery Island Suite and Associated Alteration Haloes, Great Bear Lake, Disitrict of Macenzie
in Current Research 1989, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper , Geological Survey of Canada, 1989-C, p. 37 - 42

Reardon, N. C., 1993
Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems and Associated Magnetite-Apatite-Actinolite Deposits, Echo Bay, Northwest Territories
M. Sc. Thesis, University of Ottawa, Ontario, 154 p.


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