CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
494 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.38.00 N -- 116.53.45 W Upper Bea Lake vein zone Cu; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Upper Bea Lake vein zone
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife (180 km 315)
NTS map data: 085N10 (Bea Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Deposit object located: centre-main vein zone
Commodities: Cu; Fe
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., 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., 1998
Exploration of the Mazenod Lake-Squirrel Lakes Property in 1998 Prospecting, Geological Mapping, Ground Magnetic and Radiometric Surveys, and Prospect Evaluation (Report to Alberta Star Mining Corp)
DIAND Document, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 55 p.

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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