Granitoid rocks and associated coper skarn, Whycocomagh Mountain, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Authors: Barr, Sandra M., Choy, R. Yip, Colwell, J. A., Oldale, H. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 1984
• Subjects: Breton Island
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/1573

Mineralized (Fe-Cu-W-Mo) skarn in the Whycocomagh Mountain area is associated with a small pluton of Devonian (402±20 Ma) age, which intruded predominantly metasedimentary rocks of the Hadrynian George River Group. The pluton consists largely of granite porphyry with a marginal granodiorite to diori...