| Title | Economic potential of northeast Ellesmere Island, Nunavut |
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| Author | Dewing, K; Harrison, J C; Mayr, U |
| Source | Geology of northeast Ellesmere Island adjacent to Kane Basin and Kennedy Channel, Nunavut; by Mayr, U (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin no. 592, 2009 p. 347-360; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/289653 (Open Access) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; CD-ROM; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Mayr, U; (2009). Geology of
northeast Ellesmere Island adjacent to Kane Basin and Kennedy Channel, Nunavut, Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin no. 592, ed. rev. |
| Related | This publication supercedes Mayr, U; (2008). Geology of
northeast Ellesmere Island adjacent to Kane Basin and Kennedy Channel, Nunavut, Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin no. 592 |
| File format | pdf (Adobe® Reader®) |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 39E/11; 39E/12; 39E/13; 39E/14; 39F/13; 39F/14; 39F/15; 39F/16; 120B/04; 120B/05; 120B/06; 120B/11; 120B/12; 120B/13; 120B/14; 120B/15; 120C/02; 120C/03; 120C/04; 120C/05; 120C/06; 120C/07; 120C/08; 120C/10;
120C/11; 120C/14; 120C/15; 120C/16; 340A/01; 340A/02; 340A/03; 340A/07; 340A/08; 340A/09; 340A/16 |
| Area | Ellesmere Island; Kennedy Channel; Kane Basin; Bache Peninsula; Judge Daly Promontory; Knud Peninsula |
| Lat/Long WENS | -80.0000 -64.0000 82.0000 78.5000 |
| Subjects | economic geology; fossil fuels; mineral occurrences; mineral potential; basement geology; bedrock geology; hydrocarbon maturation; thermal maturation; maturation; carbonates; lead; zinc; coal; Canadian
Shield; Hazen Formation; Daly River Fault Zone; Scoresby Bay Formation; Cape Clay Formation; Paleozoic; Devonian; Carboniferous; Silurian; Ordovician; Cambrian; Quaternary; Tertiary; Mesozoic; Cretaceous |
| Illustrations | photographs; drawings; tables |
| Released | 2008 12 30 |
| Abstract | The economic potential of northeast Ellesmere Island has been assessed at a reconnaissance level. Three types of Zn-Pb showings are present. From basin to platform these are carbonate-hosted
Pb-Zn-Ag-Au-Cu (Sb-As) quartz veins of the Hazen Formation in the northwestern part of Judge Daly Promontory; Zn-Pb-Fe showings in the Hazen Formation close to the shelf margin and Daly River Fault
Zone; and carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb showings in
platformal strata of the Scoresby Bay and Cape Clay formations. Three hydrocarbon play types can be visualized for the northeast Ellesmere Island area: structural traps in lower Paleozoic carbonate in the footwall of the thrusts, the Silurian reef
tract in undeformed area, and offshore areas (grabens?) with thick Cretaceous - Tertiary sediment.
Signifi cant coal occurs in the Bache Peninsula graben in 21 seams, each more than 1 m thick. About 100 million tons of coal could be present if
an 8 km2 area is underlain by 3.2 m to 19.9 m of coal seams. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 289653 |
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