CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
502 Canada (Northwest Territories) 65.11.09 N -- 117.42.00 W Damp Prospect Cu; Co; Ni; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Damp Prospect
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife (200 km 320)
NTS map data: 086F04 (Longtom Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Deposit object located: main trenched area
Commodities: Cu; Co; Ni; Fe
Mineralization styles: breccia-fillings
Geological ages: Early Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic-felsic mixed volcanic rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: subaerial; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:basalt
andesite
rhyolite
Host rock stratigraphy:Labine Group
References:
Gandhi, S. S.; Prasad, N., 1995
Geological Setting of Bode Copper and Damp Polymetallic Prospects, Central Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1995, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1995-C, 271 p, p. 201 - 212


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