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Copper from
Coppermine River area, Nunavut, Canada


Locality type:Area
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Coppermine River area, Nunavut, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1256888
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1256888:0
GUID (UUID V4):4ab6f006-8313-4b78-abe4-d057dea11ed1
Localities for Copper in this Region
Muskox Intrusion, Coppermine River area, Nunavut, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Lead Isotope Analysis of Geological Native Copper: Implications for Archaeological Provenance Research...and Subarctic North America had been using native copper for several centuries prior to sustained interaction...century. The connection, if any, between the use of copper in these two adjacent regions is, at present, unclear... The ability to determine the source of native copper artifacts found in greater northwestern North America...America would inform on the movement of copper via trade and exchange between, and aid in understanding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marginal rocks from the Muskox layered intrusion (Nunavut, Canada) and implications for the evolution of the...Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada Anglo American Exploration (Canada) Ltd., 800-700 West Pender Street...Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6C 1G8, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 19 May 2008...geochronology Muskox intrusion Marginal zone Coppermine River flood basalts Mackenzie large igneous province...intrusion, Nunavut, is part of the widespread 1.27 Ga Mackenzie large igneous province in northern Canada. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoproterozoic stratigraphic successions of northern Canada R.H. Rainbird a,∗ , A.D. Rooney b , R.A. Creaser...Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada Department of Earth... University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Mesoproterozoic stratigraphic successions within northern Canada. Shale from the basal Escape Rapids Formation yields...northward-dipping section exposed along the Coppermine River, which drains Canada’s central-northern mainland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CHALCOCITE DEPOSIT, GREAT BEAR LAKE, CANADA. CHRISTOPHER RILEY. INTRODUCTION. THE occurrence...the Arctic coastoœthe North West Territories oœ Canada has been known since Hearne's plorat{ons{n 178o...interestingcopperdepositsnear DiSmalLakesin the Coppermine River regionand on Great Bear Lake to the southwest...southwest. • So far, it seemsthat nat{re copper{s lesslikely to be found {n commercialamountsthan depositsof...amount of work that has beendoneindicatesthat this area may becomeof importance whenhighercopperpricesobtain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T6G 2E3, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8, Canada a r t i...isotopes Mackenzie large igneous province Coppermine River Assimilation and fractional crystallization...c t The 1.27 Ga Coppermine continental flood basalt (CFB) province in northern Canada represents the extrusive...wt.% MgO) in the lowermost stratigraphy of the Coppermine CFB. Compositions of mineral phases in CM19 are...isotope data that places the feeder for lower Coppermine CFB picrites and basalts within the Muskox Intrusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOVEMBER,1956 A SUMMARY OF NATIVE HENRY IDEAS ON COPPER NO. 7 THE ORIGIN DEPOSITS • OF R. CORNWALL...Survey. 616 HENRY R. CORNWALL INTRODUCTION COPPER, silver,and gold are distinguished amongmetalsin...copperoccurs. The geologicassociationsof native copper,as shownin Table 1, range from mafic extrusives...418-421, TABLE 1 GEOLOGIC ASSOCIATIONS OF NATIVE COPPER Type and prominent examples I. Basaltic lavas...(Triassic) Copper and White Rivers, Alaska Coppermine River, Northwest Territories, Canada Novaya Zemlya
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Precambrian Research 133 (2004) 175–186 The Bear River dykes (1265–1269 Ma): westward continuation of the...the Mackenzie dyke swarm into Yukon, Canada Danette L. Schwab a,∗ , Derek J. Thorkelson a , James K....Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences...University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2B4 c Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences...Edmonton, Alta., Canada, T6G 2E3 d Yukon Geology Program, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 2C6 b Received
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey of Canada READ, P. B. 1973. Petrology and structure of Poplar Creek map area, British Columbia...Classification and description of copper deposits, Coppermine River area, District of Mackenzie. Bulletin...1973. Earth Science Symposium on offshore eastern Canada. Proceedings of a symposium held in Ottawa February...geochemical prospecting for petroleum, Olds-Caroline area, Alberta. Paper 71-31. ix+101 pp., 40 figs, 1 pi...00. BARAGAR, W. R. A. & DONALDSON, J. A. 1973. Coppermine and Dismal Lakes mapareas. Paper 71-39. v+20
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ol the Muskox intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada New electron probe measurementsand ;r ray powder...Muskox intrusion was discoveredin the CoppermineRiver area of northern Canadain 1956by the CanadianNickel Company...moderately common in most of the diabasedikes of the area. MrxBn,lrocv Mackinazaite. Chemical analyses of...gure.Mackinawite may take up to 50 per cent of the area of a given pentlandite grain. Where pentlandite...present in mackinawite-bearing rocks include native copper, chalcocite, native iron and a cobalt-iron phase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Territories Geoscience Office, Box 1500, Yellowknife, NT, Canada X1A 2R3 Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton...University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6 c Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue,...of sills, dykes and lavas distributed over a vast area extending from Wyoming in the south to the Wopmay...Orogen and the Mackenzie Mountains of Northwest Canada. Thick (≤100 m) sills and rare dykes in Wopmay...Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 4J6. Tel.: +1 709 727 3721; fax: +1 709 729
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the metallogenic potential of Proterozoic LIPs of Canada Simon M. Jowitt a,⁎, Richard E. Ernst b a b School...Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6, and Ernst Geosciences, 43 Margrave Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1T 3Y2 ...Proterozoic Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) within Canada has been studied to determine the Ni–Cu–PGE prospectivity...Franklin-related Ni–Cu–PGE prospects are known within northern Canada. The mineralised LIPs are characterised by basalts...whole-rock geochemistry from a number of LIPs within Canada, using the database of Ernst and Buchan (2010):
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E, Canada J. Blichert-Toft Laboratoire des Sciences de la...basin, peneplaned at the top, 42 whose central area underwent subsidence after or accompanying the volcanism...occurs, frequently intergrown with native copper and secondary copper carbonates. The lavas have been variably...Zig-Zag Dal basalts include the Coppermine River basalts of northern Canada (Baragar 1969), erupted over...time-scale at ca. 1270 Ma. The 2000–3500 m thick Coppermine succession overlies clastic sediments grading
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................................ Geology of the area...................................................Department of Mines, Ottawa, Canada. § Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Mines............................................. 912 Copper minerals.........................................is on the Arctic Circle, east of the Mackenzie River, and the deposits are at Echo Bay on the east side...Bear Lake, Canada, Econ. Geol., vol. 27, no. 2 (1932) p. 145. 8 D. F. Kidd: Great Bear Lake area, Northwest
Report (chapter)
Street, Victoria, British Columbia I:8 V 1)(4, Canada (e-mail: stephencook @angloamerican.ca ) Current...Pender St., Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1G8, Canada 2 Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador...Newfoundland A I B 4J6, Canada Abstract: Lake sediment geochemistry has been used in Canada since the 1970s for...have been conducted primarily in Canada and Fennoscandia. In Canada, use of lake sediment geochemistry...of central and Atlantic Canada, comprising c. 181 000 sites which cover an area of about 2.6 • 106 km 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
B3H 3C3, Canada dGeological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, Ont. KlA OES, Canada Received 19...( - 720 Ma old) from the Northwest Territories, Canada; (b) to demonstrate the influence of crustal contamination;...continental flood basalt provinces including Columbia River (Washington, U.S.A.) and Karoo (South Africa) provinces...Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (operating grant A3782). Many thanks are due to...Lugmair, G.W. and MacDougall, J.D., 1981. Columbia River volcanism: the question of mantle heterogeneity
Book
coincide; and the äqual landscape is found in areas of river or lake where there is a layer of water permanently...independently. For example, in Fig.4 the distribution of copper, lead, and zinc, and both physical and chemical...the Second World War (Polynov, 1937). Work in this area has been continued in a number of disciplines including...(1) Idealized models which show the total surface area affected by the geochemical anomaly. (2) Idealized...hydromorphically are termed mobile. These generally include copper, zinc, nickel, cobalt, fluorine, and molybdenum;
Book (volume)
from the small, but stratigraphically important, area of Precambrian rocks in Spitsbergen and on Bjorngya...still known only in a general way, but the Shield area today is one of the key areas in the study and interpretation...extensive areas and wealth of rock exposures, is a key area in Precambrian geology with especial reference to... : : Vv BJGRN@YA ; ’ ; ih : : ; ; OF CANADA: THE CANADIAN ; : : ; : ; AUTHOR INDEX . :...the desolate island Bjorngya (Bear Island) with an area of 178 km? lies at 19° E. and 74° 30’ N. According
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J. J. BRUMMER Kennco Explorations, (Canada) Limited, Suite 1130, 25 King Street West, Toronto E. L. MANN...Rhodesia Geology of the Seal Lake Area, Labrador Abstract: The Seal Lake area covers about 800 square miles...of the 250 small occurrences of copper minerals recorded in the area occur in two of the upper formations...which appear to be unrelated to the faults of the area. The minerals, in increasing order of abundance...are chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite, and native copper, and minor pyrite. Bornite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
F.P. AGTERBERG Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ont. (Canada) (Received June 1, 1964) SUMMARY The...between mean and standard deviation of groups of copper from layers of different composition in the ultramafic-gabbroic...ultramafic-gabbroic Muskox Intrusion (N. W. T., Canada). The copper values from the individual layers follow...from the Mount Albert Peridotite Intrusion (GaspB, Canada) are extrapolated outside the topographic surface...true with respect to the lognormally distributed copper values in layers of different composition in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
palladium in ultramafic rocks of the Bird River Sill, SE Manitoba, Canada P. Theyer Manitoba Energy and Mines...Mines, 555-330 Graham Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 4E3 Received: March 2, 1989/Revisedversion:...Abstract. The ultramafic portion of the Archean Bird River Sill, a mafic-ultramafic stratiform intrusion in...mechanisms and crystallization histories. The Bird River Sill in southeastern Manitoba is a differentiated...concentrations of chromite, in addition to several nickel-copper sulfide deposits, are of interest to the mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . Allanite from the Mount Wheeler 'White area, Pine County, N e v a d a( L e e ,B a s t r o m...Aragonite in the Franciscan rocks of the Pacheco Pass area, California (McKee) Argillaceousrocks, a scheme...with Lee, D. E, Allanite from the Mount Wheeler area. White Pine 1327 County,Nevada. .. Basumallick,...Fahey, J. J. Occurrence of stevensite in the Green River formation of Wyoming. Bravoite zoning, a statistical...1488 186,810 Campbell, F. A. Lazulite from Yukon, Canada 157 Carozzi,A. V. External characters of n'rinerals
Report (volume)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NOETH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1931 AND 1932 Canada, Geological Survey: Summary Reports 1930, 1931;...Economic Geology Series, nos. 7-12. Ottawa, Ont. Canada, National Museum: Bulletins 67-70. Ottawa, Ont...Bureau of Mines: Annual Report 1930, 1931. Quebec, Canada. Rochester Academy of Science: Proceedings, vol... pts. 1, 2. Toronto, Ontario. Royal Society of Canada: Proceedings and Transactions, 3d ser., vols. 25...geographic de Quebec: Bulletin, vols. 25, 26. Quebec, Canada. South Dakota Geological Survey: Report of Investigations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Great Bear magmatic zone, Northwest Territories, Canada Luke Ootes & Steve Goff & Valerie A. Jackson &...Office, P.O. Box 1500, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2R3, Canada e-mail: Luke_ootes@gov.nt.ca and oxide minerals...Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada N. Evensen Department of Physics, University of...Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada e-mail: evensen@physics.utoronto.ca R. A. Creaser...Geological Survey of Canada, 490, rue de la Couronne, Québec City, QC G1K 9A9, Canada e-mail: lcorrive@nrcan
Report (issue)
Palmer, Michigan 6. Ribbon asbestos ore, Quebec, Canada 7. Manganese ore, banded rhodochrosite 8. Aluminum...Aluminum ore, bauxite, Georgia 9. Native copper ore, Keweenawan Peninsula, Mich. 10. Porphyry molybdenum...Carolina Grade and Tonnage Relationships Among Copper Deposits By D. A. SINGER, DENNIS P. COX, and LAWRENCE...the Search for Copper Deposits By MAURICE A. CHAFFEE GEOLOGY AND RESOURCES OF COPPER DEPOSITS GEOLOGICAL...tonnage relationships among copper deposits. (Geology and resources of copper deposits) (Geological Survey
Report (issue)
Palmer, Michigan 6. Ribbon asbestos ore, Quebec, Canada 7. Manganese ore, banded rhodochrosite 8. Aluminum...Aluminum ore, bauxite, Georgia 9. Native copper ore, Keweenawan Peninsula, Mich. 10. Porphyry molybdenum...Carolina Grade and Tonnage Relationships Among Copper Deposits By D. A. SINGER, DENNIS P. COX, and LAWRENCE...the Search for Copper Deposits By MAURICE A. CHAFFEE GEOLOGY AND RESOURCES OF COPPER DEPOSITS GEOLOGICAL...tonnage relationships among copper deposits. (Geology and resources of copper deposits) (Geological Survey
 
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