Geology Of Canadian Mineral Deposit Types

The objective of this volume is to define and summarize in a brief and systematic manner the essential characteristics of all economically significant types of Canadian mineral deposits.

Summaries of the main geological characteristics of 40 Canadian mineral deposit types are presented in a systematic format. Includes deposits in Yukon and NWT.

Description of the geology of Somerset Island and Boothia Peninsula, dominated by the Boothia Uplift with an Archean-Aphebian crystalline core flanked by sedimentary rocks of the Arctic platform and an overlying Paleozoic succession.

This report provides a tectonic and mineral deposit overview, then discusses deposits in North American rocks, followed by deposits formed in accreted and suspect' terrains; deposits formed at or near the sea floor or from hot springs; and those formed in successively deeper zones as magmatic deposits, vein to replacement deposits, skarns, and porphyries. Deposits within and directly linked to intrusive rocks (magmatic, porphyries, skarns), replacement deposits, possible manto deposits, deep to shallow veins and related deposits formed at the surface, volcanogenic massive sulphides and sedex deposits are then discussed. Sedimentary-hosted deposits of gypsum, barite, phosphate and other industrial minerals are not covered, nor are coal, uranium, pegmatite-hosted deposits, molybdenum prophyries or some of the less common deposit types such as carbonatites, tin greisens, and placers.